3 more accused held forassault on man in Barra

Kanpur: Three more accused have been arrested for allegedly assaulting 45-year-old Muslim man, accusing him of indulging in religious conversion in Barra area of the city on Wednesay.
So far, six people have been arrested in connection with the incident.
“Three persons arrested on Friday evening have been identified as Ankit Verma alias Gadumma, Keshu and Shivam. Of these, Keshu was named in the FIR,” DCP South Raveena Tyagi said on Saturday. The police are now on the lookout for other accused.
Three accused arrested earlier on Thursday in connection with the incident were released on bail from the police station itself.
The Barra police had filed an FIR under IPC sections 147, 323, 504 and 506 against a local man, who runs a marriage band, his son and around 10 unknown people based on a complaint by the victim, Afsar Ahmed.
To recall, a woman resident of Kacchi Basti had accused her neighbours Saddam, Salman and one Mukul of molesting her daughter and getting her converted with the lure of Rs 20,000. The police had registered a case on July 31, but in the absence of evidence during preliminary investigation, the police did not file a section of conversion in the FIR.
In protest against this, the local activists had created ruckus at Ram Gopal crossing in Kachchi Basti in Barra on Wednesday evening.
When Afsar, a relative of one of the molesters, passed by with his seven-year-old daughter, the activists allegedly dragged and thrashed him severely. Later, a video of the incident also went viral.