Mohammad Alamgir, who regularly visits the society to teach a student at a flat on the 16th floor, was intercepted and heckled by Manoj Kumar and fasked to say “Jai Sri Ram”.
Team Clarion
NEW DELHI — An Urdu teacher visiting a housing society in Ghazibad for private tuition was allegedly forced out of the complex by a man who reportedly heckled and asked him to chant “Jai Shri Ram”, recently.
According to police sources, the man identified as Manoj Kumar a resident of the society located in the Crossings Republik township, has been arrested on October 23.
Mohammad Alamgir, who regularly visits the society to teach a student at a flat on the 16th floor, was intercepted by Kumar and other residents on Tuesday, according to PTI report.
Alamgir said the main accused Kumar first looked at him in a “strange manner” when they saw each other on the ground floor around 5 pm and asked him where he was going. When Alamgir said he taught Urdu to a student at a flat on the 16th floor, Kumar allegedly told him to chant “Jai Shri Ram”.
Alamgir said when he remained silent and looked away, Kumar became more aggressive. “He forced me out when the elevator stopped on the first floor. Meanwhile, Kumar called another resident and asked him when Muslims had been allowed into the society. They prevented me from going to the 16th floor, and others later asked me to leave the society,” according to media reports.
Alamgir later lodged a police complaint detailing his ordeal without explicitly mentioning that he was forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram”, which he told the police verbally, Lipi Nagaich, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Wave City. said.
Based on the complaint Kumar has been booked under sections 126(2) (wrongful restraint), 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), and 351(2) (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
