The incident is believed to have happened in February this year however, it came to the fore only after the video went viral over social media prompting the parents of the victim to file a police complaint on 8th October.
As reported earlier, The accused Maulvi, Shabbir Raza, was arrested on 18th August from Malsi village in Uttarakhand's Rudrapur. Raza arrived in Malsi only two months before his arrest as he was earlier living in Rampur Shahbad. The heinous crime came to the fore when one of the minors narrated her ordeal to her family members on 16th August.
When the Police intervened and held discussions with concerned locals in several villagers, the text on many such banners was amended and they replaced ‘non-Hindus’ and ‘Rohingya Muslims’ with outsiders.
Amid reports of demographic changes in various areas of Uttarakhand, the government of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has started taking action. The police have started a 'verification campaign' to verify the people living in the state.
The recruitment drive will be facilitated by Tata Group under the National Apprenticeship Training Scheme (NATS) and the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS).