Ghaziabad: Slum dwellers were called Bangladeshi infiltrators and attacked, 2 arrested

Ghaziabad News: A Hindu right-wing group in Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh attacked and destroyed slum dwellers near a railway station on Saturday, calling them Bangladeshi infiltrators, police said. It said Hindu Raksha Dal president Bhupendra Chaudhary and Badal alias Hariom Singh were arrested in connection with the case late Saturday night.

Officials said on Saturday that an FIR has been lodged against the leader of the attacking group and others in connection with the incident and the matter is being investigated. Police claimed that the people who were attacked are not Bangladeshis but residents of the state itself. According to the police, Hindu Raksha Dal president Bhupendra Chaudhary ‘Pinky’ and his 20 supporters on Friday beat up some people living in slums near Guldhar railway station, calling them Bangladeshis and vandalized their slums.

He said that some people were injured in this attack carried out at around 7.30 pm on Friday evening. Ghaziabad Police Commissioner Ajay Kumar Mishra said, ‘The people living in the huts are not from Bangladesh, but from Shahjahanpur.’ Mishra said, ‘The police is considering applying the National Security Act (NSA) against the attackers in the case.’ Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) of Kavi Nagar Abhishek Srivastava said that an investigation was conducted after receiving information about the incident, which revealed that the victims of the attack were not actually Bangladeshi citizens, as claimed by the attackers.

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They were abusing and beating
He said that police sub-inspector Sanjeev Kumar, who was on duty at Sanjay Nagar Sector-23 at that time, lodged an FIR at the local Madhuban Bapudham police station. Kumar said in his complaint that after hearing the noise, he and his police team reached the spot, where they saw that ‘Pinky’ and his supporters were abusing and beating some Muslims while raising anti-Bangladesh slogans. According to the complaint, the group also demolished the slums.

“I tried to explain to them that these people were not from Bangladesh, but they continued to beat them and damaged their hideouts,” Kumar said in his complaint. Police said an FIR was registered against Pinky and 20 unidentified persons under relevant provisions of the law.

An FIR was registered against the accused under sections 191(2) (rioting), 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 117(4) (causing grievous hurt), 299 (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religious or religious beliefs), 324(5) (mischief) and 354 (act done to induce any person to believe that he will incur divine displeasure) of the Indian Penal Code (BNS), he said.