A group of men thrashed a Muslim boy at Mumbai’s Bandra Terminus railway station saying that he went out with a Hindu girl. The assault took place in July and videos of it were shared widely on social media on Tuesday.
The videos show the men dragging the boy outside the railway station and beating him up while shouting “Jai Shri Ram” and “love jihad band karo [stop love jihad]”.
“Love jihad” is a debunked Hindutva conspiracy theory that Muslim men lure Hindu women into romantic relationships in order to convert them to Islam.
The videos show the girl pleading with the assaulters to not beat him up.
The group of men first assaulted the boy and then took him to the Nirmal Nagar police station in Bandra.
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