Muslim family assaulted in Ajmer

Some men kicked, beat victims, told them to leave country

Barely 24 hours after the attack on a Muslim bangle seller by a frenzied mob in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore city, a family of destitute Muslims, seeking alms, was brutally thrashed by some persons in a residential colony in Rajasthan’s pilgrim town of Ajmer and told to “go to Pakistan”. A video clip of the incident, which went viral on social media, showed a man slapping and kicking the members of the family multiple times and humiliating them because of their religious identity. “This is not the place for you. Go to Pakistan. You will get alms only there,” an assailant is heard telling the victims in the video footage. The incident led to widespread outrage across the State and caused a major embarrassment to the ruling Congress. The group of youths, who caught hold of the destitute persons, were enraged by their entry into the Hindu dominated neighbourhood. One of the assailants repeatedly kicked a boy on his head as he crouched on the street. The family of victims shown in the video, including a woman, are yet to be identified.