Two Muslim women badly assaulted

2016-07-27

Main Information

  • Victim Names Shameem Akhtar Hussain, Salma Ismail Mewati
  • Date of Incident 2016-07-27
  • Nature of Violence Religious Identity Based Violence
  • Causal factors Religious identity
  • Religion of Vicitim Muslims
  • Name of Perpetrator Rao Chauhan, Dilip Devda, Swadesh Chanal, Vikas Ahir
  • State Madhya Pradesh
  • City/District Mandsaur railway station, Mandsaur railway station
  • Party in Power BJP

Other Information

  • Location of Incident Mandsaur railway station
  • Perpetrator Organization Muslim Right Wing
  • Place of incident N/A

Two Muslim women were beaten by the Bajrang Dal workers. The incident took place at Mandsaur railway station in Madhya Pradesh. They were beaten on the suspicion of carrying cow meat while they had buffalo meat. The Bajrang Dal members thrashed them and later threatened the police to thrash them when they came to the rescue. Initially the two women were arrested for the suspicion of carrying cow meat but the charges were dropped after the reports came in that the meat was of the buffalo. A case was registered against the Bajrang Dal members and 4 people were arrested by the cops. They were booked under sections 323, 341, and 34 of the IPC.