A 25-year-old Kashmiri man was tied to an electric pillar, thrashed, and forced to wear woman’s cloth in Rajasthan’s Alwar district on the night of September 4. 

The youth identified as Mir Faiz, who is in his final year of engineering at the School of Aeronautics in Neemrana is originally from Baramullah in Jammu and Kashmir. 

Based on Mir Faiz’s complaint, a first information report under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 143 (unlawful assembly), 341 (wrongful restraint), 342 (wrongful confinement), 505 (intent to cause hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code was registered at Neemrana police station. Alwar Police has also started an investigation into the matter and was on the lookout for the main accused. 

Bhiwadi SP, Amandeep Singh Kapoor told The Wire that it was not an identity-based crime and the locals did not know he was a Kashmiri. He further said it was Faiz’s dress (woman dress) that caught the mob’s attention.

As Faiz could not explain why he was dressed as a woman, the police got suspicious. The state and central intelligence agencies later intervened and interrogated the student. Faiz’s room was searched and his mobile and laptop confiscated. 

This is Faiz Mir, a Kashmiri, who was beaten up in Rajasthan’s Alwar district on 4 Sept.
In his complaint Faiz has said he was threatened by 3 men who took him to an isolated spot, forcibly made him change into a woman’s clothes & told him to walk in the Neemrana mkt.@TheQuint pic.twitter.com/z9edBC8v3o

— Aishwarya S Iyer (@iyersaishwarya) September 5, 2019

Family Cry Foul

Faiz’s brother Faizal who is based in New Delhi said that Faiz on the night of September 4 had gone to withdraw money from an ATM Machine where few men abducted him and took him to an isolated place. He was forced to strip off his clothes and was made to wear women’s cloth. He was threatened and made to walk into the market.

“He walked a little and then to save himself, entered an ATM booth but soon after, about 20 unknown men pulled him out and thrashed him in the open market,” Faizal told The Wire.

Faizal alleged that the police tortured his brother with an “intense” round of interrogations. He said that the cops accessed Faiz’s Facebook account and emails to verify whether he’s an ‘anti-national’ or not. 

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