Summary The young men asked the elderly Muslim to go back to Pakistan if he wants a seat.
NEW DELHI (Web Desk) - An elderly Muslim man was humiliated and bullied in Delhi metro when he requested a group of Indian youth to vacate a seat for him.
The appalling incident was reported by women’s right activist Kavita Krishnan on her Facebook post.
The senior citizen approached the young men and asked one of them to allow him to sit. However; they refused immediately on which the Muslim man asked again and met with the reply: “This seat is for Hindustanis not for Pakistanis like you. If you want a seat go to Pakistan and get it there.”
Responding to the slurring of the youth, the National Secretary of All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), Santosh Roy came to the support of the elderly Muslim man. He asked the youth to apologize for their hate speech and leave the seat for the elderly man but the young men refused.
One of the youth caught Roy by the collar and told him also to “Go to Pakistan.” However; when the train stopped at a station a guard entered the compartment and took the two young men to the police station where a complaint was filed against them.
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Some days later the Muslim elderly man submitted a written statement that he accepts the apology from the two young men and that he had forgiven them keeping in mind their young age.
Such incidents based on religious discrimination and intolerance are not new in India where the Muslims are subjected to communal abuse, bullying, lynching and rumour-mongering. Many Muslims have been attacked, killed and lynched by the Indian extremists over false accusations.
