Gujarat: Bajrang Dal men attack Muslims at garba venue

AHMEDABAD: A series of videos showing Bajrang Dal workers assaulting four Muslim youths at a garba venue on Sindhu Bhavan Road went viral on Wednesday. The city police are yet to register a complaint in the case even as the right-wing organization took "responsibility" for the incident.
Hitendrasinh Rajput, the spokesperson for Gujarat VHP, said that Bajrang Dal volunteers carried out checks at two venues on Tuesday night to prevent people from other religions from participating in Navratri.
"Despite being warned, four youths from another religion were spotted at a venue. Our volunteers grabbed them to prevent love jihad." Rajput admitted that the four youths were beaten up.
One of the videos shows Bajrang Dal men holding placards displaying messages against "love jihad" outside Sky Universal Garba venue on SBR on Tuesday night.
The youths were recorded making abusive comments against Muslims in one of the videos. They were also seen applying tilak on the foreheads of male garba enthusiasts purportedly to ensure that no man from the minority community enters the venue.

In another video, some Bajrang Dal workers were seen chasing a man and abusing him. They were recorded asking the man why he entered the venue despite being a Muslim and accused him of entrapping Hindu girls.
In another video, a man bleeding severely from his head was being abused and thrashed by around 30 Bajrang Dal men. The man, whose clothes were torn, identified himself as Salman Shaikh and pleaded to be spared. The Bajrang Dal workers forced him to apologize, and he was seen running away from the venue in the video. Even as the Bajrang Dal members circulated the videos, the cops were unaware of the incident.
DCP (Sector 7) B U Jadeja told TOI, "No complainant has come forward. No complaint has been filed in the case."
Bajrang Dal has also warned hotels against renting rooms to "people from other religions" accompanied by girls. In a tweet tagging the Hotels and Restaurants Association of Western India, Rajput said that it had been observed that hotels are used in cases of exploitation of girls in instances of love jihad.