A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad city has granted interim bail to all the nine men accused of assaulting an elderly Muslim man earlier...
A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad city has granted interim bail to all the nine men accused of assaulting an elderly Muslim man earlier this month, PTI reported on Friday.
A video of the assault has been circulating on social media since last Sunday. It showed the accused thrashing the man and cutting off his beard. The incident took place in Ghaziabad’s Loni area on June 5.
The man, identified as Abdul Samad, alleged that he was assaulted for hours at gunpoint after being taken to a room in a forested area.
The police had arrested main accused Parvesh Gujjar on Sunday, June 13. On June 15, the police said they had arrested two more suspects in the case. Two days later, six others were arrested.
The accused have been granted interim bail till August 17. However, Gujjar will stay in judicial custody in connection with another case, his lawyer Parvinder Nagar told the news agency.
The Ghaziabad Police claimed that Gujjar and his associates assaulted Samad because he had allegedly sold them an amulet that had a “negative effect” on their families. They also said that Samad was in the business of making and selling amulets and was an earlier acquaintance of Gujjar and others.
The police’s statement was markedly...
