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The incident took place around 2pm on Tuesday near the Atriya Temple and the victim was allowed to leave only after being forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram”.
The Uttarakhand Police have registered a first information report (FIR) against a named accused and unidentified persons for allegedly assaulting a Muslim man while he was offering namaz on a vacant plot near a temple in Rudrapur in Udham Singh Nagar district
A video of the incident, which occurred on Tuesday afternoon, has gone viral on social media, wherein the footage shows a man approaching the victim during namaz, grabbing him by the neck and throwing him to the ground. The accused is then seen kicking and slapping the man, verbally abusing him and forcing him to chant “Jai Shri Ram”.
In the video, the accused can be heard asking, “How could you offer namaz near the temple?” The victim was allowed to leave only after being forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram”. The authenticity of the video, however, could not be independently verified.
The victim, Mohammad Shahid (44), a resident of Resham Bari area, had gone to Jagatpura for daily wage work. The incident took place around 2pm near the Atriya Temple.
Uttarakhand: Man assaults Muslim praying near temple in Rudrapur, booked
The incident took place around 2pm on Tuesday near the Atriya Temple and the victim was allowed to leave only after being forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram”.


