Inter-religious relationship; a Muslim killed

2017-04-07

Main Information

  • Victim Names Mohammed Shalik
  • Date of Incident 2017-04-07
  • Nature of Violence Murder/Lynch
  • Causal factors Inter-religious marriage / elopement / affair
  • Religion of Vicitim Muslims
  • Name of Perpetrator Girls Neighbours
  • State Jharkhand
  • City/District Gumla, Soso village
  • Party in Power BJP

Other Information

  • Location of Incident Soso village
  • Perpetrator Organization Other Right Wing Hindutva
  • Place of incident N/A

Villagers in Jharkhand’s Gumla district allegedly tied a 20-year-old Muslim man to a tree and thrashed him for hours for being in love with a Hindu woman, leading to his death, police said. The man – identified as Mohammad Shalik, a resident of Raza Colony in Gumla town – was allegedly in a relationship with a Hindu woman of a nearby village, Soso, for more than a year, sources said. A group of neighbours saw Shalik and surrounded him, tied him to a tree and assaulted him for hours, the woman was quoted as saying by police. He succumbed to his injuries on Thursday. Police said they arrested three people and lodged an FIR against unnamed people