Cleric stripped and tortured in custody

2019-12-20

Main Information

  • Victim Names Asad Raza Hussaini, and others
  • Date of Incident 2019-12-20
  • Nature of Violence Religious Identity Based Violence
  • Causal factors Religious identity
  • Religion of Vicitim Muslims
  • Name of Perpetrator Police
  • State Uttar Pradesh
  • City/District Muzaffarnagar, Muzaffarnagar
  • Party in Power BJP

Other Information

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

On December 20, 2019, The UP Police detained Asad Raza Hussaini along with 100 of his students of ages 8-18, most of them orphans after violence at an anti CAA protest nearby. The students along with the cleric were thrashed and tortured brutally in custody. The students were denied access to the toilet at times, some of them suffered rectal bleeding and were forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram”. The cleric was kept for over 24 hours in a dark room where he was stripped in the cold and beaten.