Credit: Grab from video uploaded by Samirul Islam
Malda: A Muslim man was allegedly assaulted by four
people in a moving train in West Bengal, after he failed to reply to their
queries on the prime minister and the national anthem, the police said on
Friday.
The victim, a migrant labourer, was on his way to
Kaliachak in Malda district from Howrah on May 14, when the four got on the
train and sat next to his seat after he briefly de-boarded at a station, a
police officer said.
When he came back to his seat, they started asking him
questions about Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the national anthem and state
chief minister Mamata Banerjee, the police officer said, adding that the man
was roughed up when he could not reply to the incessant queries. Though he knew
who the Trinamool Congress supremo was, he didn’t know the name of the
president. When the man protested against their verbal assault, mumbling he
hadn’t studied much, the four, while constantly abusing him, asked, “You know
how to read namaz, right? Then why don’t you know the national song?”
The group, as can be seen in the video, also asked the
labourer about Nawaz Sharif, the former prime minister of Pakistan. The group
later got down at the Bandel station.
A local NGO – Bangla Sankriti Mancha – lodged an FIR
yesterday against the accused, based on videos taken by co-passengers,
Kaliachak police station inspector-in-charge Suman Chatterjee said.
An investigation into the matter is underway, Chatterjee
added.—The
Wire
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