A disturbing video from Rajasthan’s Jaipur is going viral on social media in which a mob can be seen thrashing a woman while police officials are trying to save her from getting lynched. The mentally challenged woman, who belongs to the Muslim community, was attacked by co-religionists allegedly for some slogans she wrote on her house.
The incident reportedly took place ten days ago, however, the video of the assault on the woman surfaced recently. The attempted lynching occurred on 21 July in Kalyan Nagar, located in Malpura Gate Police Station area.
On the day of the incident, an angry mob gathered outside the house of the woman. Threatened for her life, the woman locked herself in her house. But the Islamist mob forcibly entered the woman’s house and broke the house gate. Later, they broke down the door of the room on the upper floor and started brutally assaulting the woman.
*Disturbing* – A woman from the Muslim community wrote pro-BJP and anti-religion slogans on the wall of her house. A mob of her co-religionists, mostly men, launched an attack at her and tried to lynch her. She locked herself inside but was dragged out. Incident took place 10… pic.twitter.com/hll1ffVVsV
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They dragged her out by pulling her hair and clothes and threw her into the mud. On receiving the information, Police reached the spot.
After an hour or so, Constable Dholi Bai posted at Malpura Gate police station and other police personnel saved the 40-year-old woman from getting lynched.
Constable Dholi Bai said information was received that a woman has locked herself in a house in Kalyan Nagar. A crowd of about 100 to 150 people has gathered outside her house and is trying to kill her. Subsequently, she along with Harlal and SI Anil reached the spot.
She added that there we saw that a mob had gathered outside a house. There some people were trying to break the gate of the house by climbing on the second floor. In no time, they broke the gate of the house and started beating the woman. Police personnel also went inside with the mob, but they were outnumbered and overpowered by the mob and they forcefully dragged the woman out.
After dragging the woman out of her home, the mob continued to thrash her in the presence of police personnel. Constable Dholi Bai added that the mob also pushed and tried to attack the police personnel. But they held the woman and tried to protect her while the mob kept thrashing the woman for about an hour.
When more help arrived, they successfully rescued the woman from the mob and sent her to the hospital.
According to the Police officials, the woman is mentally challenged and it is alleged that she had written some objectionable things on her house walls which hurt the sentiments of the local residents.
Muslim woman targeted by co-religionist for writing pro-BJP slogans
On the basis of the complaint of the woman’s husband Sahadat Ali, Police filed a case of assault. The police stated that in the wake of Muharram, they didn’t arrest the accused back then. However, on the basis of the video footage of that day, they arrested seven accused who were part of the mob on Sunday, 30 July, ten days after the incident took place.
Malpura Gate station in-charge Satish Kumar said that the arrested accused include Kalyan Nagar residents Nasiruddin, Rashid, Mustaq, Irfan Khan, Ejaz Khan, Ikram Deshwali, and Kalamuddin.
Navbharat Times reported that the Muslim woman was attacked by the Islamist mob because she is a BJP supporter and the alleged objectionable things were Pro-BJP slogans. The report added that the Muslim woman is a BJP supporter. She drew a lotus flower on the wall of her house and wrote some slogans in support of the BJP. This allegedly infuriated her co-religionists and it culminated in the attempted lynching.
However, Times Now reported that the mob alleged that the woman had allegedly burnt pages of the Quran which led to the violent assault.
