Al Jazeera News :
A Muslim man was hacked and burned to death in India’s western state of Rajasthan in a suspected hate crime.
The half-burned body of the victim was found by the police on Thursday morning on a street in Rajsamand, over 300km away from the state capital Jaipur.
A resident of Rajsamand has been charged with murder. According to the
A Muslim man was hacked and burned to death in India’s western state of Rajasthan in a suspected hate crime.
The half-burned body of the victim was found by the police on Thursday morning on a street in Rajsamand, over 300km away from the state capital Jaipur.
A resident of Rajsamand has been charged with murder. According to the
police, the victim has been identified as 48-year-old Mohammed Afrazul, who was working as a labourer in the town.
A YouTube clip shows the accused leading the Muslim man to a secluded spot and attacking him with a weapon. The victim cries out for help until he falls silent. The attacker, identified by the police as Shambhu Lal, then addresses the camera and delivers a warning against “love jihad”, which the Hindu far-right believes is a conspiracy by Muslim groups to lure Hindu women into marriages with Muslim men and to convert them to Islam.
