Lynched by mob forced to chant Jai Shri Ram

2019-06-17

Main Information

  • Victim Names Tabrez Ansari
  • Date of Incident 2019-06-17
  • Nature of Violence Religious Identity Based Violence
  • Causal factors Religious identity
  • Religion of Vicitim Muslims
  • Name of Perpetrator Undisclosed
  • State Jharkhand
  • City/District Seraikela, Dhatkidih Village
  • Party in Power BJP

Other Information

  • Location of Incident Dhatkidih Village
  • Perpetrator Organization Bajrag Dal
  • Place of incident N/A

A mob thrashed a Muslim man in Jharkhand. He was accused of stealing a motorbike. He was tied and forced to chant Jai Shri Ram and Jai Hanuman after disclosing his name. The police locked him up in the police station for theft instead of getting him treated. The station in charge also threatened his uncle to break his bones and lock him up if he kept insisting on taking him to the hospital. He died 4 days later in a hospital and only then the police registered a case against the assaulters.