Around 200 Madarsa students detained

2017-07-11

Main Information

  • Victim Names Undisclosed
  • Date of Incident 2017-07-11
  • Nature of Violence Unlawful Detention
  • Causal factors Religious identity
  • Religion of Vicitim Muslims
  • Name of Perpetrator Undisclosed
  • State Karnataka
  • City/District Bangalore, Bangalore
  • Party in Power INC

Other Information

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

196 students along with their faculty were traveling in the train when they were stopped. These people were taken into detention by the railway Police and held there for over 5 hours. The authorities asked for identity verification, such as IDs etc because they suspected that these kids, from ages of 9-19 were being trafficked across the country. The police got to this point due to a whatsapp message being circulated saying that these children were being trafficked for religious conversion. Such manufactored rumours led the police to investigate the muslim madrasa students more.