“You don’t deserve to live in India,” four Tablighi Jamaat members assaulted in Beed District




                                           Photo: Screen shot of suspects accused of the attack.

Four Tablighi Jamaat members were mercilessly attacked by a mob of 6 men in the Beed district of Maharashtra.

Event Date: September 16, 2020

Event Time: 9:45 p.m.

Event Location: Hol Village, Beed District, Maharashtra

Victim:  1. Suhail Tamboli              Victim Age: 34

              2. Aslam Ather                  Victim Age: 24

              3. Sayyed Layak                 Victim Age: 38

              4. Nizamuddin Qazi

Victim Place of Residence: Dharur City, Maharashtra

Suspect: 1. Narayan Dhanraj Ghuge

             2. Rahul Tukaram Ghuge

             3. Four publicly unidentified men

Officials Accountable: Assistant Police Inspector Anand Zote from the Yusuf Wadgaon Police Station

Arrests: Yes

First Incident Report: Filed

First Incident Report Details:

Section 307: Attempt to murder

Section 304: Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder

Section 324: Voluntary assault with weapon 

Section 323: Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt

Section 147: Punishment for rioting

Section 148: Punishment for rioting and armed with deadly weapon 

Section 149: Individual of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object

Section 405: Criminal breach of trust 

Section 527: Imprisonment for lifetime

Case Update: Two of the six men accused were arrested. 

Statement: “Tum Hindustan mein rehne ke layak nahi ho, tum yahan nahi reh sakte [You do not deserve to live in India. You cannot live here.]”.

“All of sudden they kept hitting us till we fell on the ground and kept kicking our chest and head. I fell unconscious after that." -Victim, Suhail Tamboli

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            2. September 20, 2020, Maeeshat

            3. September 19, 2020, Magzter

            4. September 20, 2020, Kashmir Glacier

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