By Scroll Staff
A man and a woman jumped from the second floor of a pizza shop in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur district after they were allegedly accosted by members of a Hindutva organisation on Saturday, PTI quoted police officials as saying.
Both of them sustained serious injuries and are undergoing treatment.
While they were waiting for the food they had ordered at the shop, members of a Hindutva organisation started questioning them about their caste, the police were quoted as saying.
After they said that they were both Hindu, some persons started filming them.
The 21-year-old man then pulled out a window bar and jumped from the second floor, the police said, adding that the 19-year-old woman followed him, according to PTI.
The police arrived at the spot after receiving information about the incident, Superintendent of Police Rajesh Dwivedi was quoted as saying. He said at the time that no complaint had been filed in the matter so far.
“We will take strict action as soon as we receive a complaint,” Dwivedi had said at the time.
On Sunday, Shahjahanpur Police said that a first information report had been registered based on a complaint it had received. The investigation was underway, it added.
This story was originally published in scroll.in.
