Bengal Madrasa Teacher Beaten, Pushed Off Train for not Chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’

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Kolkata, June 25—Hafeez Sahrukh Haldar, 26-year-old madrasa teacher claimed yesterday that he was allegedly beaten up and pushed off a moving train by a group for not chanting “Jai Shri Ram” on the afternoon of June 20 on his travel from Canning in South 24 Parganas district to Hooghly.

“I was travelling to Hooghly when a group of people were chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ inside the compartment. They asked me to chant the same. When I refused, they started to beat me, nobody came to my rescue. The incident took place while the train was between Dhakuria and Park Circus stations. They pushed me off the train at Park Circus station. Some locals helped me,” a report in The Indian Express, quoted the madrasa teacher as saying. The police said the teacher had escaped with minor injuries.

“He had minor injuries and was taken to Chittaranjan Hospital. Proper treatment was provided to him. It seems that he was assaulted during the journey due to boarding and deboarding issues. There were two to three people who sustained minor injuries. Investigation is on and no one has been arrested,” the daily quoted a railway police official as saying. The incident took place in train number 34531 which runs from Canning to Sealdah.

A resident of Basanti in South 24 Parganas, Haldar first went to Topsia police station to file a case, but was told that the Government Railway Police (GRP) was the right authority to approach. A case was filed against unknown people at Ballygunge railway station under IPC Sections 341 (wrongful restraint), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (acts done by several persons), according ot the railway police.

Reportedly, the police officials in Kolkata, are still verifying the incident and maintain that they would take stern action against the miscreants once they are identified.

In another incident on the same day (June 20), a Delhi-based madrasa teacher was deliberately hit by a car in Rohini area when he was returning home from a mosque.

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