In Assam, mob assaults boy, accusing him of ‘love jihad’. Police arrests him under POCSO
While the police questioned one person in connection with the attack on the teenager, no arrests have been made in the matter.
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The police in Assam’s Cachar district on Friday arrested a Muslim boy, hours after he was beaten up by a mob of Hindu youngsters for talking to a female friend. The mob accused him of “love jihad”.
“Love jihad” is a conspiracy theory espoused by Hindutva groups, alleging that Hindu women are forcibly converted to Islam through marriage.
The incident took place near a higher secondary school at Narsingpur under the district’s Sonai police station area, where Ali Ahmed had gone to meet his friend on Independence Day.
At about 8 am, when Ali and the girl were talking to each other near the school, a group of boys from the Hindu community confronted him and asked his name.
“They asked my name and when I said Ali Ahmed, they started to beat me,” Ali, a Class 12 student, told reporters after the police took him away from the location. “There were 15-20 people. I don’t know them. Many more came later.”
The police said that the two teenagers were classmates and studied in the same school till Class 10.
The videos of the incident have gone viral online. In a video viewed by Scroll, Ali is seen shirtless and tied to a pole. Another video shows Ali, his hands tied, being pulled...
