Muslim teen dies in assault in UP, Muslim traveller attacked on train in Bihar
Ghaziabad : A 17-year-old Muslim teenager died after being brutally assaulted in a road rage incident in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Zaid, a resident of Mustafabad Colony in Loni, was assaulted on Banthala Canal Road in Ghaziabad’s Loni area.
Zaid was killed under Loni Border police station limits while riding his motorcycle with friends. His family said the motorcycle lightly brushed against a car near a canal, causing a minor scratch. The collision led to an argument that turned violent. In the complaint, the family alleged that the car occupants, including a man identified as Rahul, pulled Zaid off the motorcycle and assaulted him with iron rods and sticks. After the initial attack, the accused forced the injured teenager into their vehicle, took him to the office of a local property dealer, and beat him again.
The family said the accused fled, leaving Zaid critically injured. His friends brought him home in a rickshaw, after which he was rushed to a hospital in Delhi, where doctors declared him dead.
Separately, a Muslim passenger from Bihar said he was brutally assaulted on a train near Mughalsarai in Uttar Pradesh after being targeted due to his religious identity, raising fresh concerns over passenger safety and communal violence on Indian railways.
The victim, businessman Mohammad Mazhar Hussain of Bhagalpur district, Bihar, said he was travelling home after visiting the Kachaucha Sharif shrine in Ambedkar Nagar district when unidentified men attacked him inside a general coach of the Varanasi-Asansol MEMU Express in the early hours while the train halted near Mughalsarai. Hussain said one attacker struck his head with a heavy object, causing serious injuries. “My head started bleeding heavily. After that, I lost consciousness and collapsed inside the train,” he said. When he regained consciousness, Hussain found himself in a government hospital.
