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AIMIM chief Asaududdin Owaisi tweets in Jabalpur youth lynching case

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has tweeted regarding an assault on a youth by locals in Jabalpur. The youth was caught with a woman allegedly in an objectionable position inside his mobile shop. The incident happened in the Gohalpur police station area of Jabalpur on the afternoon of May 17.

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Published : May 22, 2021, 11:54 AM IST

Jabalpur: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi tweeted regarding an assault on a youth by locals in Jabalpur. The youth was allegedly caught with a woman in an objectionable position inside his mobile shop. The incident happened in the Gohalpur police station area of Jabalpur on the afternoon of May 17.

The young man was caught by the angry locals and was manhandled by the crowd before the Police intervened. The police have registered a case against the youth under various sections for opening his shop, despite the imposition of a corona curfew.

Meanwhile, In this case, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has criticised the Madhya Pradesh government and the law and order of the state.

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He wrote in a tweet that, "In Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, a shopkeeper was surrounded by some Hindutva militant cowards and then brutally stripped off his clothes, the mob falsely accused the youth of abusing a woman. But the woman said in the statement that there was no such insolence."

In his next tweet, Owaisi wrote, demanding a social boycott of such people, that no civilized society can give shelter to such criminals, in a civilized society such people would have been in jail and their social boycott would have taken place.

In the third tweet, he targeted the locals beating the young man and wrote that the police have registered a case against the shopkeeper instead of taking strict action against those goons. If the lockdown is not followed, a case has been registered, so why no case been registered against those militants?

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Meanwhile, on the allegations made by Owaisi on Twitter, BJP spokesperson Rahul Kothari dismissed Owaisi's allegations and said that the people whom he is describing as extremists are not activists of any organization but are local people. He further added the kind of hate politics that Owaisi is doing has no place in Madhya Pradesh.

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