Two students assaulted for celebrating Id with Hindu girls

An Id celebration went horribly wrong for a
group of students when some men from a
Hindu right-wing group allegedly assaulted two
Muslim students for having lunch with Hindu
girls at a hotel at Puttur on Thursday.
Around 1 p.m., Abdul Samad (21), a student of
MSW at Srinivas College at Pandeshwar in the
city, and Muhammad Jalal (18), a II PU student
at Puttur, and five girls from his college met at
a hotel at Puttur town for an Id-ul-Fitr meal,
according to the police.
While Samad and Jalal had come to the town to
celebrate the festival with their parents, the
girls from his college had come for project
work.
In his complaint, Samad said a group of men
took objection to them eating together, and
followed the boys as they took an
autorickshaw. The men stopped the
autorickshaw and assaulted them. The duo
suffered minor injuries.
Arrested
Four of the accused — Suraj, Sachin, Avinash
and Chandra Singh — have been arrested. The
Puttur police are on the lookout for the rest.