By Team Clarion
NEW DELHI — The Uttar Pradesh Police are facing sharp criticism after a Muslim youth, who had recorded a video pleading for his life inside a court, was shot in the leg by the Special Operations Group (SOG) in Muzaffarnagar only a day later. The incident has again raised questions about police action against members of the Muslim community under the ongoing “Operation Langda”.
The shooting took place on Friday (21 November) in the Nai Mandi police station area. The youth, Chand Mohammad, had gone to court to surrender in an old case. In a video widely shared online, he sat crying in his lawyer’s chamber, saying the police wanted to kill him.
In the video, Chand Mohammad says: “I have come to surrender. I have done nothing wrong. The SOG team is waiting downstairs. They want to kill me. I have small children. Please save me. They filed a false case against me.”
Another video showed his lawyer, Aas Mohammad, making serious allegations against the police. He said the case against Chand involved an assault complaint filed in 2024 and that a surrender application had been submitted on 16 November.
According to the lawyer, the police kept delaying the surrender date by saying the investigation was still going on.
He said: “My client came to surrender because the case has not been proven, but the presence of the SOG outside the court was a threat to his life.”
He added that Chand had the right to surrender safely and that the police behaviour had created fear.
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