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Communal tension prevail in Tharali following alleged rape of a minor girl

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Communal tension prevail in Tharali following alleged rape of a minor girl

S.M.A.KAZMI

Dehradun , Oct 10

Tension prevailed in Tharali town of Chamoli district  following arrest of a Muslim youth for allegedly raping a minor girl and making her video viral on social media. The youth working at a barber shop in Tharali was arrested on a complaint lodged by the father of the minor girl and was remanded to judicial custody by a local court for 14 days. Members of the right wing Hindutva organisations  held a demonstrations as a bandh was observed in the town in protest against the incident. The administration had deployed Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) in the town.

According to a police complaint lodged by th father of a 17 year old girl, the alleged accused befriended the girl on social media. He allegedly raped the girl on February 16, 2024 after lacing her drink with sedatives and made a her video. The accused tried to blackmail the girl and even threatened the mother and brother of the girl on phone and made her video viral on social media.

The accused was arrested by the police today and presented before special session Judge Vindhaychal Singh who remanded him to judicial custody for 14 days. The police also took out a flag march in the town to maintain law and order as a mob collected outside the shop of the accused.

Earlier on September 1, 2024, a violent mob of Hindutva forces had attacked,ransacked and looted the shops owned by Muslims at Nandghat on the allegations that the Muslim youth working at a barber shop had made indecent gestures to a minor girl. Shops, houses and three mosques of Nandghat and Gopeshwar were ransacked by an irate right wing mob.

On the other hand, two Muslim youth running a tea kiosk at Mussoorie were arrested and sent to jail on the charges of allegedly spitting in tea being served to customers. In another case, a video of a known restaurant owned by Muslim near Inamaullah building in Dehradun went viral in which a worker making rumali roti was allegedly charged with spitting on the roti while preparing it. The Dehradun police investigated the matter and found the charges untruw. Jamshed Quraishi owner of the eatry said that he was falsely targeted and the worker who was accused of spitting had been working for the past more than 15 years. He charged that the said video was shot from a nearby building to defame his restaurant.

 

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