Sitapur Hate Speech: Bajrang Muni Das, Who Reportedly Called For Raping Muslim Women, Arrested
The Uttar Pradesh Police arrested Bajrang Muni Das of Maharishi Shri Laxman Das Udasi Ashram, days after he allegedly made a hate speech and issued a "rape threat" in Sitapur.
The Uttar Pradesh Police arrested Bajrang Muni Das of Maharishi Shri Laxman Das Udasi Ashram, days after he allegedly made a hate speech and issued a "rape threat" in Sitapur.
Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar told PTI that police arrested Muni in Sitapur. Bajrang Muni Das, the mahant of Maharshi Shri Lakshman Das Udaseen Ashram in Khairabad town of Sitapur, had allegedly made a hate speech against Muslims on April 2. A video of it later surfaced on social media platforms.
Threats to rape Muslim women
In the two-minute video of the inciting speech made outside a mosque, Das could be heard using the term "jehadi" to refer to a particular community and threatening them if any Hindu girl is harassed by any man of that community, he would himself rape their women.
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Das had threatened that if any Hindu woman is teased by a Muslim man, he will rape a woman of the latter's community.
While he gave the speech, the crowd around applauded, while some police personnel present at the spot apparently remained silent spectators, the video showed.
The National Commission for Women wrote to the UP director general of police to lodge an FIR against Das.
In a statement, the commission said it was also seeking ¡°appropriate measures from the police to curb people from using such outrageous language for women and not be a mute spectator in such incidents".
Communal violence mars India
A case was registered against Das on April 8 with UP ADG (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar saying that stringent action will be taken against the accused.
Das, however, claimed that the video has been ¡°distorted¡± to frame him under ¡°false charges¡±.
If they'll harass our daughters, their daughters won't be safe too. The video is distorted to fabricate me under false charges: Mahant Bajrang Muni Das who was seen in a hate speech video in Sitapur, UP pic.twitter.com/5Y3xBgkfaH
¡ª ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) April 8, 2022
Hindu mob Mahant Bajrang Muni giving rape threats to Muslim womens in front of Masjid and police.
¡ª Muslim Analyst (@muslimanalyst) April 8, 2022
"I am telling this to you with all the love that if you teased a single Hindu girl then i will openly pick up your daughter and daughter-in-law out of your house and rape them."
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India is witnessing a communally charged environment, especially over the last few weeks. Violence broke out in many parts of the country during the Ram Navami processions in which several were severely injured.
Ram Navami celebrations on Sunday were marred by violent communal clashes in some parts of six states ¡ª Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Goa, Delhi, Jharkhand and West Bengal.
In Madhya Pradesh, at least 10 houses were set ablaze and more than two dozen people were injured in clashes that erupted during Ram Navami processions in various areas of Khargone.
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