For the first time, Bengal witnessed an ugly communal scene inside a moving local train where a member of a minority community was roughed up by some right wing activities as he refused to chant Jai Shri Ram sources said.
The incident took place on last Thursday when Md Shahrukh Haldar, a school teacher from Canning area, was coming to Kolkata. He was accosted inside a local train between Dhakuria and Park Circus where he was supposed to get down, sources said.
Alleged activists of Hindu Samhati, a right wing group, reportedly surrounded the man and asked him to chant Jai Shri Ram which he refused, Haldar’s kin said, adding he was badly beaten up and pushed outside the moving train even as it slowed down near Park Circus station.
Haldar received injuries in his left eye and forehead, sources said. A police complaint to this effect had been registered with the Ballygunge GRP.