A Kashmiri youth studying in an aeronautical engineering college was tied to an electric pole and allegedly beaten up by a mob in Neemrana town of Rajasthan’s Alwar district on Wednesday night. The mob claimed that the youth, dressed in a woman’s clothes, was looking suspicious.
The youth, identified as Mir Faiz, 25, belonging to Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district, has lodged a complaint with the police for assault by the mob. Though the police have launched an investigation, they were also checking the youth’s credentials.
Based on Mir Faiz’s complaint, a first information report under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 143 (unlawful assembly), 341 (wrongful restraint), 342 (wrongful confinement), 505 (intent to cause hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code was registered at Neemrana police station.
Bhiwadi Superintendent of Police Amandeep Singh Kapoor said on Thursday the police were checking the student’s mobile phone, laptop computer and social media accounts and had searched his rented accommodation, while the intelligence agencies would join the police in his interrogation.
No person has been arrested so far on the complaint lodged by Mir Faiz and nothing suspicious was found from the latter, according to the police sources. The youth is a final year student of B.Tech. (Aeronautical Engineering).
