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The Madhya Pradesh Police connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026) registered a lawsuit against assorted people, a time aft videos showed a antheral being assaulted connected allegations of ‘love jihad’ aft being dragged retired of a edifice successful Bhopal, officials said.
According to the police, a lawsuit was lodged astatine the Govindpura constabulary station, based connected assorted complaints received from individuals and assemblage leaders, against unidentified persons for beating up Arif Khan (27) a nonmigratory of city’s Jahangirabad area.
Bhopal Additional Commissioner of Police, Crime, Monika Shukla told The Hindu that the constabulary person launched an probe into the lawsuit and that the accused were yet to beryllium identified.
On May 11, aggregate videos went viral showing a radical of Bajrang Dal activists barging into a backstage hotel’s country successful Bhopal’s Gautam Nagar area, thrashing him and dragging him out. One video showed the mob, galore of them donning saffron scarfs and chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’, putting cattle dung connected his look and slapping him successful beforehand of the constabulary adjacent arsenic unit effort to intervene, starring to arguments betwixt the cops and Bajrang Dal workers.
The antheral was aboriginal handed implicit to the police.
The right-wing activists had alleged that the antheral was caught with a Hindu pistillate and was “involved successful an enactment of emotion jihad’, a word coined by the Hindu outfits accusing Muslim men of “luring” Hindu women into relationships with them.
Govindpura presumption in-charge Awadhesh Singh Tomar said that the incidental took spot connected May 10 and that a lawsuit has been registered nether Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Section 299 (Deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage spiritual feelings of immoderate class).
Mr. Tomar said that the constabulary are analysing the viral footage to place the accused.
“We had taken a enactment of the substance yesterday [May 11, 2026] itself but the girl’s household and the antheral decided not to record immoderate complaint. Now, we person received immoderate complaints truthful an FIR has been filed,” helium said, adding that the antheral and the pistillate person been fixed clip to deliberation successful lawsuit they privation to lodge a complaint.
He said that Mr. Khan has astatine slightest 5 pending cases against him, including those of fraud and theft.
Another constabulary officer, who requested anonymity, said that portion authoritative statements of the pistillate were not recorded, she admitted to person been successful a narration with the antheral and had gone to the edifice consensually.
Meanwhile, Deepak Bundele, a Bhopal based lawyer and societal activist, has written to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seeking its involution into the substance and directions for the authorities to forestall incidents of motivation policing successful future.
Terming the incidental a usurpation of cardinal and quality rights, Mr. Bundele wrote, “Notices should beryllium issued to the Director General of Police (DGP), Madhya Pradesh, and the District Magistrate (DM), Bhopal, seeking a study connected an impartial investigation. Based connected video evidence, the accused persons should beryllium identified, and punitive enactment against them indispensable beryllium ensured.”
