A 12-year old boy was mercilessly beaten by right wing activists after he drank water from a temple in Ghaziabad area of Uttar Pradesh.
This hate crime captured on videom where a Hindu man can be seen hitting the Muslim boy because he entered the premises of Dasna Devi temple to drink water.
Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of Alt news had shared the video on his twitter account and had tagged Ghaziabad police.
Shringi Yadav who was assaulting the boy first asked the person shooting the video to ensure that his and the boy’s face should be clearly visible in the video.
He then went on to ask the boy his name and his father’s name (both Muslim names) after which he asks the boy why he entered the temple and the boy simply responded that he went there to drink water and he was immediately met with blows from Yadav.
Yadav kept slapping him, twisted his arm and dropped him to ground and started kicking him all over and even tried to kick him in his groin but the boy managed to shield it with his free hand.
The boy in a muffled voice kept pleading “paani peene aaye the uncle” (I had only come to drink water, uncle) as Yadav kept beating him mercilessly.
The man shooting the video, towards the end tried to pacify Yadav and asking him to stop.
This is not just some isolated untoward incident that was shot by an onlooker.
The UP Police taking cognizance of the incident took the accused under detention.