UP: Video Shows UP Seer ‘Threatening to Rape’ Muslim Women
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New Delhi: The police in Uttar Pradesh’s (UP) Sitapur district have initiated an investigation after a purported video showing a saffron-clad seer allegedly threatening to abduct and rape Muslim women in public if members of the community harass any Hindu girl in his area, surfaced on social media on Thursday, according to news reports.
The two-minute video, said to have been recorded on April 2, shows Bajrang Muni Das, the mahant of Maharshi Shri Lakshman Das Udasin Ashram, Khairabad town, making allegedly provocative and communal remarks outside a mosque during a procession on Navratri and the Hindu New Year, news agency PTI reported.
Bajrang Das Muni can be heard saying in the video that if any Hindu girl is teased by a man belonging to a particular community, he would himself rape a woman of that community.
“If a single Hindu girl is teased by you [a Muslim] in Khairabad, I will openly bring your daughter and daughter-in-law out of your home and rape her,” Muni is heard saying in the video, according to PTI.
According to NDTV, the video shows Muni using a microphone inside a jeep and a man in a police uniform can also be seen in the background with the crowd cheering “Jai Shri Ram”.
Mohammed Zubair, who is the co-founder of fact-checking website, AltNews, said that no action has been taken by the police even after five days.
TRIGGER WARNING!
A Mahant in front of a Masjid in the presence of Police personals warns that He would K!dnap Muslim Women and ₹@pe them in Open.According to the locals near Sheshe wali Masjid, Khairabad, Sitapur. This happened on 2nd Apr 2022, 2 PM. @sitapurpolice @Uppolice pic.twitter.com/wkBNLnqUW0
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) April 7, 2022
The Sitapur police, responding to his tweet, said that a senior officer is investigating the matter and action will be taken on the basis of facts. PTI reported that additional superintendent of police, North, Rajiv Dikshit, is probing the matter.
अपर पुलिस अधीक्षक उत्तरी द्वारा जांच प्रचलित है। प्राप्त तथ्यों एवं साक्ष्यों के आधार पर नियमानुसार विधिक कार्यवाही सुनिश्चित की जाएगी।
— Sitapur Police (@sitapurpolice) April 7, 2022
Muni, NDTV reported, also alleges that Rs 28 lakh has been collected to murder him.
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