A disturbing hate crime unfolded in the early hours of Saturday, April 26, at Habibganj Railway Station (now Rani Kamlapati Railway Station) in Bhopal, where Government Railway Police (GRP) Head Constable Nazar Daulat Khan was viciously assaulted by a group of intoxicated Hindu youths.
The attack, which was captured on video and has since gone viral, was reportedly motivated by the officer’s Muslim identity.
According to reports, Constable Khan was on patrol around 2 a.m. when he noticed a group of young men consuming alcohol inside a parked car on the station premises, a violation of public space regulations.
When Khan approached the group and asked them to leave, the situation quickly escalated. The assailants, after noticing Khan’s Muslim name, allegedly hurled verbal abuses at him, targeting his religious identity. The confrontation turned violent, with the group physically attacking Khan, punching him, and tearing his uniform.
Two other GRP officers, identified as Constables Sandeep and Kamal Raghuvanshi, attempted to intervene but failed.
In a shocking display of Islamophobic bias, one of the attackers reportedly told the intervening officers, “You are Hindu brothers, step aside,” while continuing to abuse and assault Khan.
The video evidence, widely circulated on social media, shows the assailants forcibly opening the door of a GRP jeep, attacking Khan, and leaving him with a torn uniform and minor injuries.
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