A madrassa teacher and two others were allegedly pushed off a moving train in West Bengal for refusing to chant 'Jai Shri Ram'.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced Rs 50,000 compensation to a madrassa teacher and two others who were allegedly pushed off a moving train for refusing to chant 'Jai Shri Ram' on June 19.
The incident came to light on Tuesday when Mannah Mullah, one of the victims, narrated his ordeal to media persons.
Mullah was travelling with six people from Canning in South 24 Parganas in West Bengal to Hooghly. A group of men entered their compartment and began forcing them to chant 'Jai Shri Ram', he claimed. When refused, the men allegedly started beating Mullah and his companions.
Recalling the ordeal, Mullah, while speaking to ANI, said he wanted to chant the slogan he was asked to, but couldn't as the mob was continuously thrashing him.
"Seven of us were attacked by a group of people, although I tried to chant 'Jai Shri Ram' I could not because they kept beating me up. Then they pushed me off the train with two more people," he said.
He was helped by local people, before being taken to a hospital. The Government Railway Police (GRP) admitted that some people had suffered injuries in the incident and said that they were trying to identify the culprits.
A similar incident came to the fore last week, wherein a Muslim man, Mohammad Momin, was allegedly attacked by three people in New Delhi's Rohini area after he refused to chant 'Jai Shri Ram'.
This comes amid the outrage over the lynching of a 24-year-old man in Jharkhand. Tabrez Ansari was thrashed by a mob for alleged theft on June 18 and a video had emerged which purportedly showed that he was forced to chant 'Jai Shri Ram' and 'Jai Hanuman' in Jharkhand's Saraikela Kharsawan district.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday broke his silence on the incident, saying it has pained him and the guilty must be severely punished, but stressed that all incidents of violence in the country, whether in Jharkhand, West Bengal or Kerala, should be treated the same and law should take its course.
(With ANI inputs)
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