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Muslim man stripped, beaten for accompanying Hindu woman in India

Videos of the incident went viral on news channels, after which police arrived at the scene

Web Desk August 25, 2015

PHOTO: HINDUSTAN TIMES

A group of armed men in India stripped a Muslim man, tied him to a pole and lashed him for over an hour in a crowded marketplace for allegedly making conversation with a Hindu woman.

Both, the Muslim man and Hindu woman lived in a communally polarised coastal town of Mangalore where such attacks have been quite common in the past.

After videos of the lashing went viral on news channels, police arrived at the scene and arrested 14 out of around 30 suspected Bajrand Dal Party activists who were reportedly taking turns to flog him for indulging in a conversation with a Hindu.

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The young man however, while lodging a complaint, claimed that the woman is a salesgirl at a local accessories store in Mangalore, where he is the manager.

"She had asked me for a loan of Rs 2,000 and we were walking to an ATM when the armed man came with knives and started attacking us," the manager said.

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Though the woman managed to escape, she too was slapped by the men when she came to her colleague's defence.

This article originally appeared on Hindustan Times

COMMENTS (68)

Shahzaib | 9 years ago | Reply This is the point Where I'm forced to say Thanks you Quaid e Azam

Ram Dargad | 9 years ago | Reply @Valar Morgulis: ''narrative about taking all Muslims to Pakistan ..'' is reserved only for believers of 2 nation theory. Indian Muslims (including Madani) never believed it. Even Bengali Muslims abandoned it.

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someone | 9 years ago | Reply Had it been a Hindu guy seen with a Muslim girl in Pakistan, he would have been lynched to death.

Ram Dargad | 9 years ago | Reply @Bewildered: Many were sentenced by courts after 2002 Gujarat riots, including a Minister of Modi government, Hindu extremists & also the Muslim fanatics who triggered the riots by burning a train coach full of humans. India today is not same as India of 1984 when innocent Sikhs were killed in mob violence in reaction to Khalistani terrorism, which was supported by external forces.

jamor | 9 years ago | Reply @wb: But convicted ex minister Mayabehn Kodani is free on health grounds.This happened after Modi became PM.When the bail application was heard,the public prosecutor conveniently did not appear in court.The judge then set her free unopposed.A woman convicted of mass murder spends only a year in jail.In India under trials languish in jail for longer periods than the maximum sentence for their alleged crime.I wouldn't call this one sided justice

Zain | 9 years ago | Reply Beware "phantom" you could be next

A Hindu | 9 years ago | Reply as per local newspapers, girl did a press conference and said that man was trying to abuse her in public. mob taught him a lesson. not a communal issue.

Lion King | 9 years ago | Reply Watch out "mr. phantom"

Nav | 9 years ago | Reply I just looked into the Indian newspapers. They are telling something else. Girl has filed police compliant against this person for the harassment and misbehaviour. There is not one dimension to the stories.. You should look from girl angle also.

desi tadka | 9 years ago | Reply there are many other incidents happens as well ! but ET make sure to pick religion based news........Alas PK people require such incident to justify their nationhood.

wb | 9 years ago | Reply @Bewildered: "You didn’t punish even the killers of 3,000 Sikhs of Delhi and 2,000 Muslims of Gujarat (rather you rewarded the butcher of Gujarat) even after passing decades and you claim the offenders of this comparatively minor crime would be punished. What a pathetic attempt of deceiving." You clearly don't read news. Killers of Sikhs are in jail. 30 odd Muslims have already been convicted in the Gujarat riots for burning down a train and starting the riots. Learn to google and read Indian news papers also.

Yasir | 9 years ago | Reply @Indian: Does that justify public beating and stripping in India?

ajeet | 9 years ago | Reply @Bewildered The direct action butcher who is the father of your nation was the cause of thousands of Hindu deaths.

Aamir - Toronto | 9 years ago | Reply @Roger......next time suggest some credible news paper, I can't even open the link !!!!

Ladybug | 9 years ago | Reply Reverse happens a lot more in that region, Hindu men even get killed if they are with Muslim girls ...

DNiwasi | 9 years ago | Reply @Shahzaib: It never had any grounds. The cause of such incidents in India are completely different than the madeup reasoning for 2 nation theory.

DNiwasi | 9 years ago | Reply Similar things have been taking place against Hindus in Hyderabad and UP. The root cause of problem is mullah leaders, uninterested politicians and impotent police. We need to check growth of madrassas, bring uniform civil code, compulsory universal education, compulsory family control, etc etc if we want to solve such problems.

Valar Morgulis | 9 years ago | Reply @G. Din: We realized that even Two nation Theory is not sufficient for Subcontinent. There will be a Khalistan as well, There will be a Naksal land as well, There will be a Tilangana too. And then I'll come and pay tribute at Indira Jee's samadhi. Make sure you tell your narrative about taking all Muslims to Pakistan to your Indian Muslims as well, like Owaisis and Madni. I'd love to hear their stance after showering of love from their fellow Indian.

Valar Morgulis | 9 years ago | Reply 'Blame the Pigeons, not the lad.' That's my only message to Bajrand Dal.

observer | 9 years ago | Reply @sohaib: '"under modi.. india is doomed !" Modi has nothing to do with this incident. Mangalore is in Karnataka that is ruled by the Congress party. As for being doomed, in reality, India is going to new heights in economic and military power.

Roger | 9 years ago | Reply @Aamir - Toronto: Pls read this properly before making comments. It is the from the local newspaper. http://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsdisp.asp?nid=347731

GS@Y | 9 years ago | Reply @Lol: The article clearly says the mob were Bajrang Dal activists. Can you read?

Altaf | 9 years ago | Reply Such are the incidents that others brave to comment " India is strong so long it is not splintered on religious grounds " Why we take time to understand this simple satire.

HZR | 9 years ago | Reply @Saira Khan: and double thanks for parting.How about the balance that is still left?

Bewildered | 9 years ago | Reply @wb: @Babloo: "Miscreants will be punished" You didn't punish even the killers of 3,000 Sikhs of Delhi and 2,000 Muslims of Gujarat (rather you rewarded the butcher of Gujarat) even after passing decades and you claim the offenders of this comparatively minor crime would be punished. What a pathetic attempt of deceiving.

Raisani | 9 years ago | Reply "It happens only in India"

bahaha | 9 years ago | Reply SHINING INDIA FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS

Shiv | 9 years ago | Reply @Shahzaib: There is more talk of the two nation theory in Pakistan than India. Most Indians wouldn't even know. Those who know are now happy and grateful to Jinnah for it. The only regret is that most of the muslims after wholly supporting him did not go to Pakistan

Karachi Wally | 9 years ago | Reply Generally these things don't happen in India, specially untill few years back. Some elements of Hindu parties are creating enmity with Muslims, on the overall bsis there is complete harmony between Hindus and Muslims. Yes Modi factor is there but it will take many more years of RSS and BJP rule to make India absolutely fanatic, I guess!!

usman777 | 9 years ago | Reply they are for all practical purposes a hindu country but call themselves secular for global branding purposes. we pakistanis are unapologetically say who we are what we are an islamic republic the first approach is more intelligent.

Raj - USA | 9 years ago | Reply Thank you Gandhi for giving us Swadesh which we want to make it as cultural and cruel as Swat valley. http://tribune.com.pk/story/7242/flogging-my-sentiments/

Babloo | 9 years ago | Reply An isolated incident, that's why its news. Miscreants will be punished and should be punished.

fact | 9 years ago | Reply love what is making india shine every other day

Ahsan Khan | 9 years ago | Reply Wow... SHINING INDIA! Whoa... wait... what's that? Those guys were ISI agents? what? ISI pigeons? Oh ok... my bad.

G. Din | 9 years ago | Reply @Shahzaib: "And then they say, “Two Nation Theory has no real grounds”…" True! TNT shall be proved correct when, and only when, Pakistan takes the whole Muslim population of India. Think about it. You will kill three birds with one stone by doing so. 1. You will add a huge "resource" to your country, 2. India shall - oh, so "regretfully" lose - such a great resource., for which you will jump with joy, lastly 3. You can claim Kashmir more convincingly. So, when will you be ready to receive them?

Pakistani-Khi | 9 years ago | Reply Where are all our Endians counterparts? when a news related to Pakistan all the rats starts chanting poison to Pak and showing up as wise and lovable nation. In reality the most most extremist are Hindus and no other!! Endians films shows everytime anti-muslims and innocent hindu materials, but they have never showed the reality!!

Point | 9 years ago | Reply i have gained faith in india, may these incidents make a better name of india in the future too :)

Sita | 9 years ago | Reply @Indian: tell your lame excuses to Hindustan Times, from where this news was lifted as such. Indians sure are shameless.

Aamir - Toronto | 9 years ago | Reply @Indian.....You are such a liar, the man was trying to help the women by lending her the money.....read this news from NDTV !!! http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/man-stripped-and-beaten-by-moral-police-in-mangalore-1210717

Khwaja Siraj | 9 years ago | Reply “AKHAND BHARAT” (UNDIVIDED INDIA) CONCEPT Via Wikipedia: (a) Akhand Bharat (translation: “Undivided India”) is a Hindi term used to represent Undivided India as it existed prior to the Partition of India in 1947 and the Independence of Bangladesh in 1971. (b) The call for recreation of the Akhand Bharat has on occasions been raised by some mainstream Indian cultural and political organizations such as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). (c) Other major Indian political parties such as the Indian National Congress, while maintaining positions against the partition of India on religious grounds, do not necessarily subscribe to a call to reunite South Asia to recreate Akhand Bharat. (d) Pre-1947 maps of pre-partition India showing the current states of Pakistan and Bangladesh as part of the territories of India illustrate the borders of Akhand Bharat. (e) The recreation of an Akhand Bharat is also ideologically linked with the concept of Hindutva (“Hinduness”/Hindu Nationalism) and the ideas of sangathan (unity) and shuddhi (purification) that seek to refocus modern Indian politics on the ancient civilizational heritage of South Asia. (f) While the leadership of the BJP wavers on the issue, the RSS has always remained a strong proponent of the idea……The RSS mouthpiece Organiser often publishes editorials by leaders such as the present [head of the RSS], Mohan Bhagwat, espousing the philosophy that only Akhand Bharat and sampoorna samaj (united society) can bring real freedom to the people of India.

Proj. Aziz Bhatti Sh. | 9 years ago | Reply Hindu fundamentalism, also called Hindutva, is driven by a trio of organisations in India called the Sangh Parivar – the family. The RSS is an ultra-conservative group that demands unflinching patriotism and preservation of Hindu culture; the VHP is their religious arm; the BJP is the political arm and India’s main opposition party. There are smaller offshoots too including a violent paramilitary wing called the Bajrang Dal and the hardline Shiv Sena party in Mumbai whose founder adored Hitler. “Hindu nationalism is built on the idea that India is a Hindu majoritarian nation, with Muslims and Christians cast as the minority, ‘other’,” Rahul Verma, a journalist and researcher on the subject, says. He says Hindu nationalism in recent years has fed off the Islamophobic, post-9/11 “Muslim terrorist” narrative. Chetan Bhatt, the director at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics, has also spent years studying this movement. “Narendra Modi has been an activist for the Hindu far-right paramilitary RSS and its affiliates for the entirety of his political life. He remains committed to the supremacist ideology of Hindutva which says that India should be an exclusive Hindu nation state in which minorities are treated as second-class citizens or worse.” But Narendra Modi became a controversial figure in 2002, when a train with Hindu pilgrims coming from the site of the mosque was set on fire by Muslims, killing 58. That incident immediately sparked riots across the state of Gujarat, where he was still Chief Minister, and more than 2,000 Muslims were killed and thousands made homeless. Reports by various groups including Human Rights Watch found extensive evidence of state participation and complicity in the violence. One of Modi’s cabinet ministers, Maya Kodnani, was convicted of orchestrating a massacre and seen handing out swords to Hindus exhorting them to kill Muslims.

Ronnie | 9 years ago | Reply @sohaib: Says the country which ranks 2nd from back, in list of Failed States. PS: If this is evidence of doomed India, we would love to get utterly doomed..

Jalal | 9 years ago | Reply @Pakistani:

There should be a Punishment/ compensation as per law of the land.

Really? Just like there is punishment/compensation inr Pakistan for abducting Hindu girls and forcefully converting and marrying them (which is really rape)? In that case no punishment/compensation in necessary as per Pakistani custom.

Ronnie | 9 years ago | Reply @Saira Khan: We weill also thank Qaid E Azam after you take the rest of your biradars from India. According to 2 Nation Theory, India is for Hindus

Roger | 9 years ago | Reply Before 1947 Pakistan had 27% minorities but in 2014 it had less than 1% minorities. Pakistan should stop commenting on others.

kamal | 9 years ago | Reply Send him to Pakistan, we will beat him some more. Is there a famine of Muslim women??? that he has to associate with Hindu girls.

Janjua Butt | 9 years ago | Reply Racism in India is systematic and independent of the presence of foreigners of any hue. This climate permits and promotes this lawlessness and disdain for dark skin. Most Indian pop icons have light-damn-near-white skin. Several stars even promote skin-bleaching creams that promise to improve one's popularity and career success. Matrimonial ads boast of fair, v. fair and v. very fair skin alongside foreign visas and advanced university degrees.

Jaan Khan Mehman | 9 years ago | Reply Fantastic diversity and interaction. Shining India!

Haider | 9 years ago | Reply @Indian Are u crazy??? Just see what happened and properly read the news

Pity | 9 years ago | Reply @Lol: When did Bajrang Dal became Muslims?

pakistani | 9 years ago | Reply Leave Saif Ali Khan alone. He (and other Indian muslims) re in a difficult position. Also we are not exactly known for our tolerance of minorities either. The sub continent has to grow up.

Irfan | 9 years ago | Reply I've had friends form Mangalore while in US...... Mangalore is fairly cosmopolitan in nature. Its atmosphere was first disturbed when conversion FACTORIES began to operate here... the locals resented it . But Indian media nd political and elites are so SECULAR minded that they let this conversion factor grow.. Eventually , the educational institutes brought in peopel fro mother parts of India as well... But, mangalore has been havign moral police since hte advent of big educationla insitutions..... This is more of a MORAL POLICING Issue rather than a communal.. Incidentally, the manager is a muslim man and sales girl is a hindu woman.. it would have been worse if it was otherwise...HE would have been DEAD by now...we are selectively making this a communal issue..

Lol Answers | 9 years ago | Reply @lol .. Dear lol, it was Bajrang dal party , since when they became muslims.. -- The mob that lashed him was Muslim as well Doesn’t ET think it was imp to mention??

Manish Rastogi | 9 years ago | Reply This is a shameful incident & this confirms again that all is not well in my country. We have to still travel a lot. The problem I see is with our education system where the focus is only on job(money). Indian youth are not reading literature & history enough to first understand the our culture then to enhance/contribute to it. They are confusing education with literacy.

Indian | 9 years ago | Reply the news is out. this shameless scum from minority community was blackmailing the girl. so he got what he deserved.

Ronnie | 9 years ago | Reply Sorry that he ended up burning his fingers in Love Jihad. Hindu girl was obviously not her first cousin.. Was she ? Hence, Not sorry. You reap what you sow !!

Indian | 9 years ago | Reply tell the full news tribune . this shameless person was blackmailing this girl. the girl has filed complaint against this muslim blackmailer.

Shahzaib | 9 years ago | Reply And then they say, "Two Nation Theory has no real grounds"...

ask | 9 years ago | Reply One of the biggest piece of self-serving hoax of the Subcontinent is the so-called Tolerance of its peoples.

Linzhi | 9 years ago | Reply This is Modi's Acche Din. Mangalore was such a peaceful city without any significant communal incidents until BJP came to power and the goons like Bajrang Dal became the heroes of the safronised society. The safronization has reached even the police ranks. Every time an incident like this happens, the media is present in advance but the police reach only the whole incident as planned by the perpetrators is completed successfully. I won't be surprised people like Mutalik and some of the big mouthed ministers in the current government get highest award of the land for their contribution in spreading hatred and discord in the community. It is time for RSS and BJP to do some introspection and ask themselves how nationalistic their actions are and do they have any role to play in building up the society and bringing about peace and harmony in the society. A nation's development is not measured in terms of GDP alone. A few industrialists can become super rich and show a significant increase in GDP but are the people happy in the society? is there communal harmony? Can the citizens live without fear and profess their religion/beliefs freely? India was a free society with exemplary communal harmony, which is systematically destroyed by this political party.

Lol | 9 years ago | Reply The mob that lashed him was Muslim as well Doesn't ET think it was imp to mention??

Mota Nawab | 9 years ago | Reply This is why Saif Ali Khan needs to have faith in Pakistan. From being a Nawab , today India made him a person who needs to dance to earn a living. Shame Shame India.

Liberal | 9 years ago | Reply And Indians were saying.............?

Saira Khan | 9 years ago | Reply Thank you Quaid e Azam <3 !

wb | 9 years ago | Reply Usually there's a background to such stories which don't come out. Such things happen because a jilted lover, or a brother, or a family member or a friend does not like the relationship and informs these fringe groups. Good that the police have arrested 14. They should be punished without any favor and they'll be. Such incidences are condemn-able and does not augur well for the future of India.

Ahmad | 9 years ago | Reply And Saif Ali Khan say its Pakistan he doesn't have faith in. Only in India.

sohaib | 9 years ago | Reply under modi.. india is doomed !

Pakistani | 9 years ago | Reply There should be a Punishment/ compensation as per law of the land.

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