Karnataka: Muslim student assaulted by Hindutva men for speaking to a Hindu girl.
A Muslim student was assaulted by four Hindu men for talking to a Hindu girl in Puttur, in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district on Tuesday (2nd May). Seventeen-year-old Mohammed Faris was at a juice parlour with his female classmates from the government pre-university college in Puttur. One of the girls was reportedly from a different faith. While Faris was conversing with his classmates, four Hindu men called him aside and assaulted him. Faris was later treated at a hospital and is said to be stable.
The police arrested the four accused: Dinesh Gowda, Prajwal, Nishanth Kumar, and Pradeep. Gowda is an auto-rickshaw driver in the city, while the others are college students, the newspaper reported. The case was registered under Sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting with a deadly weapon), 365 (kidnapping), 504 (intentional insult), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
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