On the night of 16 September, 4 Tablighi Jamaat members Suhail Tamboli, Aslam Ather, Sayyed Layak, Nizamuddin Qazi were brutally attacked by some Hindu mobs in the Hol village of Maharashtra’s Beed district.
The four Tablighi Jamaat members were travelling to Ambajogai village from Dharur for one of their friend’s funeral when the car developed a glitch and they parked the car and Suhail Tamboli and Sayyed Layak went to get water for coolant.
Besides that, two men on a bike arrived at the spot where their car was parked and for no reason started verbally abusing Aslam and Nizamuddin, and as per them, “used filthy language against our community.” The men were wearing skull caps and Kurtas.
The Tablighi members politely tried to deal with the situation but within a span of a few minutes, the mob made a call and more six men arrived at the spot with sticks.
The mobs spewed hateful comments against them and their community. They said, “Tum Hindustan mein rehne ke layak nahi ho, tum yahan nahi reh sakte [You do not deserve to live in India. You cannot live here.]”.
“All of sudden they kept hitting us till we fell on the ground and kept kicking our chest and head. I fell unconscious after that”, “We heard them saying ‘they are dead’ to other boys and left”,the mobs damaged the car after beating them and left, said Aslam and Suhail.
Suhail added, “They certainly intended to kill us that night. They also pulled our beards and threw our caps.”
While Sayyed and Aslam successfully managed to escape the site and hid in the nearby farm. “We fled to the farm but we were watching. We could not rescue them, all of us would have been killed then,” said Sayyed.
The incident took place at around quarter to ten and went on for the next forty minutes
Aslam and Sayyed made calls to their village and informed them of the incident after which Suhail and Nizamuddin were taken to Ambajogai Government Hospital. They were that the police arrived at the site an hour later.
However, an FIR has been registered on 17 September at Yusuf Wadgaon Police Station under Section 307 (Attempt to murder), 324 (Voluntary assault with weapon), 323 (Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 147 (Punishment for rioting), 148 (Punishment for rioting and armed with deadly weapon), 149 (Individual of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 405 (Criminal breach of trust) and 527 (Imprisonment for lifetime)of IPC.
According to API Anand Zote of Yusuf Wadgaon Police Station, two assailants namely Narayan Dhanraj Ghuge and Rahul Tukaram Ghuge among six have been arrested presently.