Dhatkidih women lodge rape threat FIR, AIMIM rubbishes charge

RANCHI: A group of Hindu women from Dhatkidih village, where Tabrez Ansari was caught and beaten up by a mob while allegedly committing theft before he was handed over to the police, have filed an FIR against unknown persons for threatening them of rape.
In their complaint filed at the under Seraikela Police station, the women said 30-odd people reached the the village on Monday, abused the women and threatened to rape them. Without mentioning the time of their arrival, the women said the car leading the cavalcade had a placard of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and the people were shouting slogans in support of Aftab Ahmad and Assaduddin Owaisi.
The FIR is signed by several women from and the complainants have sought adequate security cover as the menfolk have left the village ever since arrests started in the case of the mob attack on Tabrez Ansari.
Seraikela police station in-charge Avinash Kumar confirmed that he had received the complaint on Wednesday evening and said that an FIR has been lodged against unidentified persons. Seraikela Kharsawan SP S Kartik said the police will probe if the allegations are true. “There is a police picket and heavy security deployment in Dhatkidih village since June 18,” he said.
AIMIM state president Hubban Mallick rejected the allegations and said that it was a handywork of elements trying to polarise the society. “We visited Tabrez’s family and met his widow in Kadamdiha village, but hardly anyone of us know where Dhatkidih is,” he said. Mallick expressed shock that such efforts to polarize the village was taking place despite police deployment in the area.
“Pappu Mandal, the main accused in the mob violence case, is a known BJP supporter and this incident must have been planned by jis leaders to lodge a false case against AIMIM,” he said. AIMIM had sent three representatives — Aftab Sidiqqui, Kamran Khan and Reyaz — to Kadamdiha soon after the news of Tabrez’s death spread. “They never went to Dhatkidih village,” Mallick said.
The matter has come to the attention of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, who sought details from the state unit and criticised the BJP government for showing least sensitivity over the issue. “No one from the ruling party thought of visiting the Ansari;s family. They are busy politicking,” Mallick said.