Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested a man for assaulting a minor Muslim boy for drinking water from a temple.
The accused identified Shringi Nandan Yadav, a native of Bhagalpur in Bihar was arrested by the Ghaziabad Police on Friday night after the video of the assault went viral.
The video was first uploaded on Instagram by an account called @hinduektasanghh, which has since been deleted.
The original video was uploaded saying that the Muslim kid was beaten by Shringi Yadav in Dasna Devi Mandir.
Mulle ko Napunsak bana diya, (he has been made impotent) the sick caption of the video read.
In the video, the accused can be seen confronting the boy.
He first asks the boy his name and then his father¡¯s name.?
After this, the accused who was holding the boy on his hand asks him what was he doing at the temple.
When the boy replied that he went to the temple to drink water the accused slapped him repeatedly and pushed the boy to the ground.
He continued to assault the boy even as the person making the video asked him to stop.
Since the video went viral, many other videos of him also have surfaced online showing him threatening and harassing Muslims.
After the video went viral, Ghaziabad Police said the accused who was seen assaulting the boy in the video has been arrested.