WATCH: Indian police officer threatens protesters, tells them to go to Pakistan
The video was shot on Dec 20 when five people died during protests against the anti-Muslim citizenship bill in India
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A senior Indian police officer has been caught on video asking protesters to leave India and "go to Pakistan".
In the video clip, Meerut Superintendent Police Akhilesh Narayan Singh is seen walking down a narrow lane in riot gear. At one point, Singh stops to talk to a group of Muslim men, saying “Where will you go? I will set this lane straight.”
According to India Today, the video was shot in Meerut's Lisari Gate on December 20 where five had died during protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
"These black and blue badges you people are wearing, tell them to go to Pakistan,” the Indian police official told the Muslim men in the video.
"If you don't want to live here, go to Pakistan...you come here but sing praises of some other place. I am now familiar with this lane. And once I remember, I can even reach your grandmother,” the SP threatens the men.
The Indian police officer warned the men that “If something happens here, you will only have to pay the price.”
He then turns around with other police officers, also in riot gear, but returns at least thrice to warn the men. He is even heard hurling abuses, “I will throw every man from every house in jail."
Pakistani Hindus reject India’s offer for citizenship
The Indian police official then ends his rant by saying, "I will destroy them."
At least 25 people so far have been killed in protests across Indian since the citizenship law was adopted on December 11.
India has been convulsed by the broadest unrest in at least seven years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government brought in the law that many see as discriminatory against Muslims, who make up 14% of the population.
In the video clip, Meerut Superintendent Police Akhilesh Narayan Singh is seen walking down a narrow lane in riot gear. At one point, Singh stops to talk to a group of Muslim men, saying “Where will you go? I will set this lane straight.”
According to India Today, the video was shot in Meerut's Lisari Gate on December 20 where five had died during protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
"These black and blue badges you people are wearing, tell them to go to Pakistan,” the Indian police official told the Muslim men in the video.
"If you don't want to live here, go to Pakistan...you come here but sing praises of some other place. I am now familiar with this lane. And once I remember, I can even reach your grandmother,” the SP threatens the men.
The Indian police officer warned the men that “If something happens here, you will only have to pay the price.”
He then turns around with other police officers, also in riot gear, but returns at least thrice to warn the men. He is even heard hurling abuses, “I will throw every man from every house in jail."
Pakistani Hindus reject India’s offer for citizenship
The Indian police official then ends his rant by saying, "I will destroy them."
At least 25 people so far have been killed in protests across Indian since the citizenship law was adopted on December 11.
India has been convulsed by the broadest unrest in at least seven years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government brought in the law that many see as discriminatory against Muslims, who make up 14% of the population.