Attack on muslims while performing namaz

2017-04-05

Main Information

  • Victim Names Undisclosed
  • Date of Incident 2017-04-05
  • Nature of Violence Religious Identity Based Violence
  • Causal factors Religious identity
  • Religion of Vicitim Muslims
  • Name of Perpetrator Undisclosed
  • State Jharkhand
  • City/District Koderma, Jharkhand, Koderma, Jharkhand
  • Party in Power BJP

Other Information

  • Location of Incident Koderma, Jharkhand
  • Perpetrator Organization Bajrag Dal
  • Place of incident N/A

Muslim were attacked during praying in a mosque. They were already threatened by RSS earlier to not pray there, but when they did not pay heed to the threats, they were attacked within the mosque. FIR was lodged against the perpetrators but at the scene the perpetrator outnumbered the police therefore the police escaped to save themselves.