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Tension was mounting successful Sarvat Kajiyan locality successful Muzaffarnagar territory connected Monday (March 9, 2026) aft an Imam was attacked and beaten by youths of different community. A video of the incidental has gone viral. Locals person demanded strict enactment against the culprits.
On March 8, the imam, Hafeez Abdul Wahab, was connected his mode to connection namaz connected a bike, erstwhile helium was drawn into a verbal altercation with section youths, who attacked and brutally bushed him up. The incidental was captured connected CCTV camera. The injured idiosyncratic was sent to the territory infirmary and aboriginal transferred to Meerut for treatment. Locals created an uproar and constabulary rushed to power the situation.
“The incidental happened owed a insignificant altercation. The injured is being treated. We person registered a lawsuit pursuing a ailment by the injured antheral and 2 youths person been arrested; they are juveniles. As the locality is sensitive, we are maintaining a vigil successful the area, and everything is nether control,” Siddharth K Misra, Circle Officer City, Muzaffarnagar, told The Hindu.
The Opposition Congress has alleged specified incidents are portion of a broader signifier to disturb communal harmony astatine a section level. “An organised signifier is astatine play crossed Western U.P. to disturb communal harmony done localised incidents aimed astatine terrorising minorities, this is the latest of galore specified incidents; we request strict enactment against the accused. In Muzaffarnagar, arsenic the communal disagreement is getting blurred, the right-wing ecosystem is moving hard to make faultlines. The medication successful delicate districts indispensable prioritise communal harmony,” said Shahnawaz Alam, National Secretary, Congress.
