India: community-based HRD beaten until left unconscious, charged
Event- Country
- India
- Initial Date
- Jul 17, 2024
- Event Description
About the Human Rights Defender: Imran Ali alias Raju Warsi is an established human rights worker and the district Coordinator of INSAF Manch Vaishali Bihar. Background of the incident: Muharram is one of the main festivals of Muslims. Even Hindus in large number participate in the festivity. But anti-social religious hate mongers try to gain political benefits by spreading communal disharmony in the society. Details of the Incident: On July 17, 2024 at around 8:00 in the night a Muharram procession was passing through Mahua Bazar, Gandhi Chowk, District Vaishali, Bihar. Some miscreants started abusive slogan against Prophet Mohammad and Allah. To avoid any clash people in the procession caught them and handed them over to police on duty at the spot. However, the Police let them go after some time. The hooligans again gathered at Government Block office gate and started shouting. Mr. Imran Ali tried to reach there in order to understand the reason for the commotion. All of a sudden, the hooligans attacked HRD Imran Ali and started beating him. He was beaten up so badly that he got unconscious. The attackers left him there thinking him dead. Mr. Imran Ali was taken to the Sub division Government hospital. Seeing his serious condition of the HRD doctors referred him to District Hospital and he was taken to Hazipur District Hospital Bihar. Next day seeing that he is not getting proper care HRD’s family members admitted him in a private nursing home where he remained admitted till July 22,2024 A complaint regarding the incident was made to police on July 19, 2024 at the Mahua police station. The police filed an FIR on July, 20, 2024. After filing FIR perpetrators started calling HRD and threatening him to withdraw the police complaint. However HRD Imran Ali didn’t withdraw his complaint. On July 23 2024, the police filed a FIR against HRD Imran Ali under sections 126(2), 191(2),127(2),115(2),118(1),303(2),352,351,74,76 of BNS 2023 and 3(1)(s), 3(1)(w), 3(1)(r) of Prevention of Atrocities Against SC/ST Act.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Judicial Harassment
- Violence (physical)
- Wounds and Injuries
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Freedom of expression
- HRD
- Community-based HRD
- NGO staff
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Non-state
- Source
Case shared by FORUM-ASIA member People's Watch
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 25.700906422019532
Longitude: 85.22071328583084
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 17 July 2024, Imran Ali alias Raju Warsi, district Coordinator of INSAF Manch Vaishali Bihar, while trying to calm some disorders happening during a Muslim celebrations was beaten until left unconscious by three individuals, who threatened to file a complaint against him after being reported, and then the police booked him under false charges in Vaishali District, India.