Two youths forcefully cut beard of a Muslim boy

2018-08-01

Main Information

  • Victim Names Zafaruddin, Ikhlaas
  • Date of Incident 2018-08-01
  • Nature of Violence Religious Identity Based Violence
  • Causal factors Religious identity
  • Religion of Vicitim Muslims
  • Name of Perpetrator Gaurav, Nitin
  • State Haryana
  • City/District Gurugram, Hari Nagar, Gurugram
  • Party in Power BJP

Other Information

  • Location of Incident Hari Nagar, Gurugram
  • Perpetrator Organization Bajrag Dal
  • Place of incident N/A

Two Hindu men allegedly assaulted a Muslim youth when he went to a salon with his friend. The two accused were already there and after they were done they told the victim Zafaruddin to get his beard shaved off. Zafar refused. Upon hearing him refuse, they called him a Pakistani and beat him and tied him to the chair and threatened to kill him. Then they forced the hairdresser to shave his beard off. When he refused, they beat him too and tried shaving the beard by themselves. Police arrested the two accused as well as the hairdresser.