Shamli unrest: GRP arrests youth for assault on Tablighi men

The police arrested Sunil on Saturday night from near Badaut railway station. He was produced before the court on Sunday from where he was sent to judicial custody.

Investigating officer in the case, Inspector Sunil Dutt, who is also the in-charge of the Government Railway Police Station in Badaut, said the accused works in Delhi and visits his house in Baghpat’s Bawali village once in a week. He added that the GRP arrested Sunil when he was coming out of the railway station.

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On other accused, Dutt said they have all been identified and raids are on to arrest them.

The press release issued by the DGP headquarters said that directions have been issued to invoke Gangsters’ Act against the arrested person.

The IO also informed that the statement of five members of Tablighi Jamaat has been recorded.

The complainant in the case, Mohammad Farooq Ali Khan, who was allegedly assaulted by the accused, has told the police that he could not remember the faces of men who had attacked him, the IO said, adding that other members of the Jamaat claimed that they were “not assaulted”.

Earlier, unidentified miscreants had allegedly manhandled Khan following a dispute over not letting him pass to go to the toilet inside the train. Members were going to Saharanpur from Delhi to meet a cleric.

Assailants had alighted from the train when it slowed down at Badaut.

Tablighi men, all of whom hail from Maharashtra, did not go to Saharanpur and instead got off at Kandhla railway station in Shamli to file a case.

Next day, locals protested over the alleged assault and 17 persons were left injured. Shamli police had transferred the investigation to GRP, Badaut.