After one-and-a-half-12 months and the problem locating an echo withinside the Supreme Court at some stage in the listening to of a case remaining week, the Noida Police has lodged an FIR over a criticism through a Delhi-primarily based totally guy who claimed a “communal assault” on him.
On July 4, 2021, the 40-12 months-antique guy, who lives in Delhi’s Zakir Nagar, turned into on his manner to Aligarh whilst he boarded a non-public car in Noida’s Sector 37 and claimed its 4 occupants assaulted him.
Kazim Ahmed alleged the unidentified occupants withinside the car pulled his beard and forcibly eliminated his pyjama as they stored him hostage withinside the shifting automobile for round 15 mins in Noida earlier than dumping him on a road.
Ahmed additionally claimed that once he approached the police, the nearby officers did now no longer resort his criticism or took any prison action.
Notably, the example located an echo withinside the Supreme Court on January thirteen at some stage in a listening to of a remember associated with hate speeches centered on spiritual minorities withinside the country.
When contacted for the police’s reaction over postpone in accommodations of the FIR, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Noida) Harish Chander advised PTI, “The remember is sub-judice. No comments.” According to the FIR lodged at Noida’s Sector 39 police station round 1 AM on Sunday, 4 unidentified people who have been onboard the automobile were booked.
The accused were booked beneathneath Indian Penal Code sections 323 (voluntarily inflicting harm), 324 (inflicting harm through risky weapons), 504 (insult to initiate breach of public peace), 298 (uttering, words, etc, with planned motive to wound the spiritual emotions of any person), 352 (attack or crook pressure in any other case than on grave provocation), the FIR showed.
The attack on Ahmed in Noida on July 4, 2021 had come inside a month of an aged Muslim guy being attacked withinside the neighbouring Ghaziabad district.
On June 5, Bulandshahr-resident Abdul Samad Saifi turned into overwhelmed up through a few younger guys who allegedly additionally chopped off his beard and compelled him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’.
The Ghaziabad police had maintained that the assault on Saifi turned into now no longer communal and because of a “private enmity”. The police had arrested round a dozen human beings over the attack case.