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NEW DELHI – A Muslim youth was thrashed in Delhi’s Bawana area after being accused of conspiring to spread COVID-19 recently. The victim Dilshad Ali had reportedly returned to his village after attending a Tablighi Jamaat conference in Bhopal.
According to police, Dilshad had returned from Bhopal to the national capital in a truck of vegetables, news agency PTI reported. The man was held at the Azadpur vegetable market and released after a medical examination. Police said when he reached his village, rumours spread that he had a plan to spread Coronavirus.
This is horrible!
This guy was brutally beaten by a group of people on the accusation of having link with #NizamuddinMarkaz and spreading #Covid_19 in India. @Uppolice @dgpup @DelhiPolice please look into this matter. #CoronavirusPandemic
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— Md Asif Khan آصِف (@imMAK02) April 6, 2020
“He was beaten up on Sunday and was rushed to a hospital by police,” a senior police officer told PTI. Police registered a case under relevant sections of the IPC and arrested three persons, they added.
His condition is said to be stable, according to police sources.
