2 people beaten up for begging in Ajmer, told to 'go to Pakistan'; 5 youth arrested
Jaipur, Aug 24: Five people were arrested in Rajasthan's Ajmer town for allegedly thrashing two beggars who apparently looked like Muslims and asking them to go to Pakistan, police said on Tuesday.
The police action followed a video on social media that purportedly showed the accused, who have been booked under various offences, including promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, beating and threatening the men seeking alms in a housing colony in Ajmer.
The three victims in the video, two men and a woman, are yet to be identified, police officials said. The video was circulated across various social media platforms on Friday and the police registered the case on Tuesday.
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The victims are not yet identified and they are being traced. They apparently looked like Muslims, said SHO of Ramganj police station Satendra Singh.
The main accused Lalit Sharma, who beat up the beggars, was arrested on Friday while four other accomplices identified as Shailendra Tak, Tejpal, Surendra and Rohit were arrested on Saturday, the SHO said.
He said the action was taken suo motu on the basis of the video clip.
The video purportedly shows a boy, a man and a woman being cornered by the group of five youths. Sharma is seen purportedly kicking the boy on his head as he is crouched on the street. He is also seen slapping the man for apparently begging in the housing colony and asked him to "go to Pakistan" for alms.
Meanwhile, some members of the Muslim community approached the police officers raising objection over the issue saying their religious sentiments have been hurt.
The SHO said that case was registered on Tuesday by police itself under IPC Section 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion etc.), 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings or any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 341 (wrongful restraint).
No fresh arrest has been made and the matter is being investigated, he added.
The incident comes a few days after a bangle seller was thrashed by a group of people even as he begged for mercy in Madhya Pradesh's Indore city. The viral video showed the people levelling allegations of eve-teasing against the bangle seller and egging on others to beat him up.
This is in Chandrvardai Nagar, Ajmer, Rajasthan.
— Hussain Haidry (@hussainhaidry) August 23, 2021
"Pakistan jaa," this man says as he slaps a Muslim beggar with his two children. In the video, he kicks on the head of the young boy.
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Over 17,000 people went missing in Delhi in 2024: NCRB
New Delhi (PTI): A total of 23,058 people, comprising 9,482 men and 13,576 women, were reported missing in Delhi in 2024, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
Of the total, 5,491 were children below the age of 18 — 1,571 boys, 3,920 girls.
The city recorded 17,567 fresh adult missing persons cases in 2024, comprising 7,911 men and 9,656 women.
According to the NCRB data, released on Wednesday, 14,637 men, 18,238 women and six transgender persons were still missing from previous years.
At the latest count, in 2024, Delhi had a total of 55,939 missing persons cases — 24,119 men, 31,814 women and six transgender persons.
In 2024, police traced or collected 28,392 missing persons, including 12,182 men, 16,208 women and two transgender persons.
Only half of the men and half of the women who went missing could be traced.
A total of 27,547 missing persons – 11,937 men, 15,606 women, four transgender persons — were yet to be untraced by the end of the year, the data showed.
The data also revealed that 5,352 children from previous years remained untraced at the beginning of 2024.
The number of still missing boys was 1,621, and the number of missing girls was 3,729. Two transgender children were yet to be found.
After adding the pending cases from previous years, the total number of missing children cases handled in 2024 rose to 10,843.
The police traced or recovered 6,762 missing children — 2,030 boys, 4,732 girls.
The recovery rate stood at 63.6 per cent for boys and 61.9 per cent for girls, while no transgender child was traced.
By the end of 2024, a total of 4,081 children remained untraced, 1,162 of them boys, 2,917 girls, and two transgender children.
