Mob assaults Muslim vendor with sticks, rods in UP
New Delhi, Mar 28 (KMS): Six people were arrested by the Ghaziabad police after a video of Muslim vendor being assaulted with sticks and rods in Nandgram’s Ghukna market, Uttar Pradesh has gone viral.
According to Ghaziabad police, the accused men thrashed the victim – Danish – in Nandgram area.
Six people – Anupam Kaushik (22), Ashish Kaushik (19), Pravesh Kaushik (48), Sukhveer (35), Titu (38), and Ashutosh (19) – have been arrested. They are all residents of the Ghukna market.
Reflex steel, steel screw, steel rod of a mike, and three bamboo sticks were recovered by the Nandgram police.
The six men were arrested under Sections 147 (rioting), 148 (Rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149(Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 307 (Attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code.
