A shocking incident has come to light where a student of the ICFAI Law School in Hyderabad was reportedly ragged, assaulted, lynched and forced to chant ‘Allah Hu Akbar’ (Allah is the greatest) by his Muslim seniors.
A video of the incident has gone viral on social media in which a group of students can be seen beating up and threatening the victim inside a hostel room.
The students can be heard saying “will fix his ideology, beat him to coma,” in the video.
In the complaint filed by the victim Himank Bansal, he said that around 15-20 persons barged into his hostel room at 3:30 PM on 1 November 2022 and ganged up on him.
He mentioned that they kicked his testicles, himiliated him and threatened to beat him to death if he didn’t take his trousers off. He added that he has noticeable bruises under his right eye and a swollen skull. The perpetrators apparently asked him to take a story of him severely hurt and upload it as a Snapchat story.
They had threatened him with death if he reported to the college authorities about the incident.
Bansal mentioned in his complaint that they attacked him as he had mistakenly referred to Prophet Mohammad as a ‘paedophile’ to another friend.
According to Bansal, one of his friends from 1st year BA-LLB named Dipasha Sharma had allegedly called him a paedophile for being friends with a girl 3 and a half years younger than him. Bansal claimed to have defended his friendship saying that he was not seeking any sexual relations whi her for and further cited references from Islamic scriptures to explain how he is not wrong. The entire conversation according to Bansal had happened in Instagram messenger. Dipasha Sharma had allegedly shared screenshots of this conversation which led to the gang barging into his room and beating him.
“I did not realise that my statements about her amounted to disrespect because Islamic scholars like Zakir Naik have acknowledged this reality by citing an authentic hadith.”, he said.
He also noted that the perpetrators invaded his privacy and read through his other chats on WhatsApp without his consent.
“My family have same religious sentiment, so we had some chats where someone asked us to only buy goods from Hindu vendors and not from Muslim vendors. We also had some other pro-Hindu chats there.”, he had noted in his complaint.
He said that he had to make up a story that those chats were made by his cousin and not him but admitted in the complaint that it was him who made those chats around a year back and doesn’t hold those views now.
Bansal also explained in graphic detail how each of the person allegedly assaulted him.
Video and photographic evidence of the assault has also been submitted to the police along with the complaint by Bansal. However, it is being reported that the incident is being trivialized as a senior-junior faceoff by a certain group.
Irrespective of how hard the lobby is trying to spin this as regular senior -junio banter, it is not. Himank Bansal is being forced to chant "Allah Hu Akbar" and is being assaulted for his ideology. His freedom to religion is being violated in a masquerading secular nation. pic.twitter.com/AJX9ISWrnb
— Rashmi Samant (@RashmiDVS) November 12, 2022
The Cyberabad Police have registed a case against the accused under the Sections 307 (attempt to murder), 342 (wrongful containment), 450 (house-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with imprisonment for life), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation), R/W 149 of the Indian Penal Code and Sec 4(I), (II), and (III) of the Prohibition of Ragging Act 2011.
In the incident reported at IBS Institute, A case was registered on 11.11.2022 by Shankarpally PS, agansit the culprits under the provisions of 307, 342, 450, 323, 506, R/W 149, IPC and Sec 4(I),(II), and (III) of the Prohibition of Raising Act of 2011. The action is being taken. https://t.co/uknlITNxbJ
— Cyberabad Police (@cyberabadpolice) November 12, 2022
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