Attack on Hindus

The accused declared, "We will not leave anyone alive. If you escape today, we will finish you off wherever we find you next."

FIR registered under BNS and SC ST Act on complaint of Akash Kumar after Muslim men entered the Dalit family’s home, assaulted women and used casteist abuses. Police have deployed additional force in the village.

The Government of India has raised at least 334 major incidents of violence against minorities with Pakistan and flagged 3,582 such cases in Bangladesh since 2021, Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh told Parliament

The small size of its defence force, ineffective coordination among security services, budget shortfall, and instability in Burkina Faso, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, and the Lake Chad Basin, Niger's efforts to fight terrorism were hampered.

The violence of the Muslim mobs during Muharram has spared no one, affecting Hindus, their families and even policemen.

The attack followed a theft probe in a Muslim-dominated area. Police denied any communal angle, even though caste slurs were hurled and Hindus were threatened with beheading during their Raja festival preparations.

The then BJP-led Bommai government had not extended any ex-gratia aid to Fazil’s family. However, when the Congress-led government under Siddaramaiah came to power in 2023, they provided financial aid to four families affected by the incident, including Fazil’s.

A senior official told OpIndia that though reports of stone pelting were received, the veracity of the claims are being investigated. Further information about the incident will be released through official channels once the investigation is over.