Rajasthan Teen Slaps Muslim Man, Forces Him to Say ‘Jai Shri Ram’
In the three-minute clip, Meena is seen slapping Mohammad Salim 25 times and forcing him to say “Jai Shri Ram.”
A video purportedly showing a teenager slapping a 45-year-old Muslim man and forcing him to say "Jai Shri Ram" in Rajasthan's Sirohi district went viral, prompting a protest from the community on 6 February.
A video of the act, recorded and circulated by the accused, Vinay Meena (18), is doing the rounds on the internet.
Members of the Muslim community protested the incident and filed a complaint at the Abu Road City police station against Meena.
Meena has been nabbed for “voluntarily causing hurt, promoting enmity, hurting religious sentiments, and breaking peace,” he said.
On 6 December, a Muslim labourer, Mohammad Afrazul, was hacked to death and burnt in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand town, the gruesome video of which later surfaced on social media, sparking a row.
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