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Virender Sehwag later apologised for his prolonged silence as well as his initial remark.
Virender Sehwag sparked a controversy with one of his latest tweets after he allegedly tried to give the horrifying killing of a poor tribal man in Kerala a communal angle.
Madhu, a tribal man from Attappadi, was severely beaten up on Thursday evening by the mob that accused the former of having stolen rice. Madhu vomited and fell unconscious while he was being taken to the police station. He was declared brought dead by the doctors.
Sehwag, known for his outspoken view on a number of issues, called it a disgrace to a civilised society but his tweet named just three people, all Muslims, as the accused.
He tweeted, "Madhu stole 1 kg rice. A mob of Ubaid , Hussain and Abdul Kareem lynched the poor tribal man to death. This is a disgrace to a civilised society and I feel ashamed that this happens and kuch farak nahi padta."
His tweet attracted a lot of furious replies from Twitter users. Many called him out for selectively naming just three of the accused. Many questioned if he shouldn't have just looked at the horrifying crime just as it was rather than bring religion into it.
The police had arrested 16 people, suspected to be part of the mob.
It's is a crime to name accused from only one religion . Here is the name of all arrested. Aneesh, Hussain, Shamshudeen, Radhakrishnan, AbuBakkr, Jaijimon, Ubaid, Najeeb, Abdul Kareem, Harish, Biju, Muneer, Sateesh! Do you have the courage to put out all names, @virendersehwag ? https://t.co/C3jB3QVGHR
— Sneha Koshy (@SnehaMKoshy) February 24, 2018
16 arrested belong to various faiths. This crime is awful enough and killers need severest punishment. Communalising it is unfortunate & unexpected of an icon like Sehwag https://t.co/KdOjOoRnlq
— Shekhar Gupta (@ShekharGupta) February 24, 2018
Cherry pick names from a mixed crowd in Kerala; stay shamefully silent on the rash of hate crimes in your own state of Haryana. Once great cricketer, maybe: despicable human being, certainly. If he has an ounce of humanity left, Sehwag would delete his tweet. https://t.co/2eFBLJRBJa
— Ramachandra Guha (@Ram_Guha) February 24, 2018
Sehwag later apologised, for his prolonged silence as well as his initial remark. He then later deleted both the tweets.
"Non acceptance of a fault is itself a 2nd fault.I apologise I missed out on more names involved in this crime bcoz of incomplete info & sincerely apologise 4 it but the tweet is not communal at all.Killers r divided by religion but united by a violent mentality. May there b peace," he said.
Cricket writer and historian Ramachandra Guha, who had earlier criticised Sehwag for his tweet, praised Sehwag for accepting his mistake.
Glad that after first issuing a partial apology, Sehwag has done the decent thing and deleted his hateful tweet altogether. He has thus shown his humanity; wish other stars in cricket, film, politics & (yes) academics would, when shown to be wrong, admit their own mistakes too! https://t.co/is3IXVOv8z
— Ramachandra Guha (@Ram_Guha) February 25, 2018
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