Muslim Man from Bihar Told to Go to Pakistan
May 28
A Muslim youth was told to go to Pakistan and shot at in Begusarai district of Bihar.
Police, however, claimed that Mohammad Qasim, a vendor who goes around on his two-wheeler selling household goods in the rural areas, was shot at on Saturday because of a dispute over payment for his wares.
Qasim, being treated at a hospital in Begusarai, said he knew his attacker. “I was at Kumbi (village) in front of a paan shop.
A man named Rajiv Yadav shot me. He asked my name. I said, ‘Mohammad Qasim’. He abused me, called me a miyan (Muslim), asked what I was doing here when I should be in Pakistan, and shot me in the back.
He was completely drunk,” Qasim said in a video clip that seems to have been filmed in the hospital. Bihar is a dry state.
Qasim, a resident of Kumbi vil...