A youth assaulted by a group

2016-11-30

Main Information

  • Victim Names Sayyid Harshad
  • Date of Incident 2016-11-30
  • Nature of Violence Religious Identity Based Violence
  • Causal factors Religious identity
  • Religion of Vicitim Muslims
  • Name of Perpetrator Deepak, Sujith
  • State Karnataka
  • City/District Kallianpur, Udupi, Kallianpur, Udupi
  • Party in Power INC

Other Information

  • Location of Incident Kallianpur, Udupi
  • Perpetrator Organization Bajrag Dal
  • Place of incident N/A

A Muslim student, Harshad, was returning home from annual day programme. He was waylaid by two youths on a motorcycle. They asked him the whereabouts of a youth which Harshad refused to say. Later, when he parked his bike near a bakery at Kallianpur, those two youth came back along with others and assaulted him. A complaint was filed at Udupi police station. Two people were arrested under the section 307 of the IPC.