A Hindu Family residing in a Muslim-dominated village of Palwal was allegedly attacked and was ordered to vacate their residence that too for extending their support to the issue of the denial of citizenship to Rohingyas.
After one of the family members voiced support for withholding citizenship from Rohingya immigrants in a Facebook post, the Hindu family was threatened and ordered to leave their home.
Sachin Kumar, Mundkati police station in charge said Deepak, a resident of Sarai village, in Palwal, filed a complaint alleging that on August 15, Dilshad, Irshad, and Zaheer, village residents armed with sticks and country-made guns, entered his house and began vandalising it. They gave death threats to his family if they did not leave the village.
According to the complaint, the accused repeatedly attacked the family for their anti-Rohingya post. Lack of Hindu families in the village had already made the lone Hindu family vulnerable.
The complainant’s family has suffered psychological anguish as a result of the persistent assaults. The family has also been attacked in the past. Their attempts to mediate the problems were in vain, according to the complainant, who also stated that the accused persons had renewed their aggressiveness towards them.
Sachin Kumar stated that a case has been filed against Zaheer, Dilshad, and Irshad in connection with the incident. An ongoing probe is underway to apprehend the suspects, and their arrest is anticipated shortly.
The incident happens in the aftermath of an Islamist attack on the Jalabhishek Yatra in Haryana’s Nuh, a Muslim-majority region infamous for worsening law and order, cow smuggling, and other social ills.
On July 31, Islamists allegedly attacked Hindu worshippers on their way to the Nalhar Shiva Temple on Shravan Somwar, culminating in a gruesome wave of violence that killed six people.
Mewat Shobha Yatra
On July 31, violence erupted in Nuh (Haryana) during the Vrijmandal Jalabhishek Yatra,’ which was organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal. Vehicles were set on fire and stones were thrown during the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Jalabhishek Yatra as skirmishes erupted between two groups in Haryana’s Muslim-majority area of Mewat.
Some local groups have been suspected of attacking because they issued a warning against the yatra when cow vigilante Monu Manesar, one of the suspects in the Nasir Junaid case, stated his intention to participate. The yatra has been stopped as of now as over 10 individuals have been injured and are being treated in hospitals.