Delhi Police arrests five for assaulting madrasa students who refused to say 'Bharat Mata ki jai'

March 30, 2016 19:47

Delhi Police on Wednesday arrested five persons, all in their 20s, in connection with an alleged assault on three madrasa students in the Begumpur area of the city.

"There had been a scuffle in a park in purview of Begumpur police station, the police has lodged an FIR according to the statements made by the victims and are investigating the case. We have arrested five people. All of them are basically students, they are in their early 20s," DCP (Outer) Vikramjit Singh told reporters here.

A 17-year-old Muslim boy sustained a fracture and two of his fellow Madrasa students were injured after they were allegedly thrashed by a group of men for refusing to chant 'Jai Mata Ki' and 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' at a park in Outer Delhi's Begampur area.

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