Hindu man brutally assaulted by a group of Muslim men over a minor issue in Barabanki; attackers shouted "Kill Hindus"

Case ID : 30a9414 | Location : Bara Banki, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Mon, 29 June, 2026

Case ID : 30a9414

Bara Banki, Uttar Pradesh, India

29 June, 2026

Hindu man brutally assaulted by a group of Muslim men over a minor issue in Barabanki; attackers shouted "Kill Hindus"

Attack not resulting in death

Attacked for Hindu identity

Hate speech against Hindus

Violent threats

Case Summary

In the Deva area of Barabanki district, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu seed seller, Manoj Kumar, was brutally assaulted by a group of Muslim men over a minor issue. The muslim men also raised a communal slogan, shouting "Kill Hindus." According to reports, the victim, Manoj Kumar, a resident of Rewa Ratanpur village, owned a seed store near Kanshiram Colony at Taspur turn. On 30 June 2026, at around 7 p.m., he scolded and chased away some boys who had been playing in the mud outside his shop and splashing mud onto his clothes. Subsequently, a group of Muslim men, identified as Badal Khan, Shanu and Chandu, sons of Mohammad Raju and residents of Kanshiram Colony, along with five or six others, entered the victim's shop and brutally attacked him with kicks and punches. During the assault, he sustained injuries to his eye and one of his teeth was dislodged. The Muslim attackers also scattered the goods kept inside the shop. Before leaving, they shouted, "Kill Hindus." Distressed by the incident, the victim approached the police, who registered a case on the basis of his complaint and initiated legal proceedings.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category of - Attack not resulting in death. Within it, the sub-category selected here is - Attacked for Hindu identity. In several cases, Hindus are attacked merely for their Hindu identity without any perceived provocation. A classic example of this category of religiously motivated hate crime is a murder in 2016. 7 ISIS terrorists were convicted for shooting a school principal in Kanpur because they got ‘triggered’ seeing the Kalava on his wrist and tilak that he had put. In this, the Hindu victim had offered no provocation except for his Hindu religious identity. The motivation for the murder was purely religious, driven by religious supremacy. Such cases where Hindus are targeted merely for their religious identity would be documented as a hate crime under this category. The second primary category selected here is - Hate speech against Hindus. Within it, the sub-category selected is - Violent threats. Violent threats, explicit, implicit or implied, is the most dangerous form of hate speech since it goes beyond discriminatory and prejudicial language to express the intent of causing harm to an individual or a group of people based on their religious identity and faith. There could be several different kinds of threats that are issued to Hindus based on religious animosity. An explicit threat would mean the direct threat of violence towards an individual Hindu, a group of Hindus or Hindus at large. Physical violence, death threats, threats of destruction of property belonging to Hindus and threats of genocide would mean explicit threats against Hindus for their religious identity. Implicit threats may not be a direct threat but implied through the use of symbols of actions – for example – in the Nupur Sharma case, other than explicit threats, there were also implicit threats when Islamists took to the streets to burn and beat her effigies. It implies that they want to do the same to Nupur Sharma – thereby is considered an implicit threat. Violent threats can be delivered in person, through letters, phone calls, graffiti, or increasingly through social media and other online platforms. It would be important to understand that a threat – explicit or implicit, online or offline – to an individual who happens to be a Hindu does not qualify as a religiously motivated threat. Such a threat, while vile and dangerous, could be owing to non-religious reasons and/or personal animosity. To qualify as a religiously motivated threat, it would need to exhibit an indication that the individual is being targeted for religious reasons and/or owing to his/her religious identity as a Hindu. This case has been added to the Hinduphobia Tracker because the assault on the Hindu victim was accompanied by an explicit anti-Hindu slogan that transformed an otherwise local dispute into an act of communal hatred. What started as a routine disagreement quickly escalated into a violent assault on the Hindu victim by a group of Muslim men. The use of this slogan "Kill Hindus" during the assault demonstrated that the hostility had extended beyond the immediate disagreement and had assumed a communal character. This slogan transformed what might otherwise have remained an assault arising from a personal altercation into an act accompanied by overt religious hostility. The slogan "Kill Hindus" was not directed solely at the victim as an individual but constituted an incitement against the wider Hindu community. Such language expressed hostility towards Hindus as a religious group and conveyed that the perpetrators viewed the victim through the lens of his religious identity rather than merely as a person involved in a dispute. By invoking violence against Hindus during the assault, the attackers transformed a personal altercation into one marked by explicit anti-Hindu animus. Such a disproportionate response to a minor altercation highlights the underlying animosity the members of the Muslim community hold against Hindus. These actions reflect a dangerous mindset of religious supremacy that demands dominance and submission through violence. In such cases, even minor, non-religious provocations are met with aggressive retaliation when the victim is Hindu, revealing an alarming pattern of identity-driven hostility that defines such hate crimes. This pattern of disproportionate retaliation, driven by identity-based hostility, is what qualifies the incident as a hate crime. This violent overreach stems from an Islamic supremacist ideology within Muslim extremist circles, which views Hindus as socially and religiously inferior. This toxic belief breeds contempt and aggression, especially when Hindus resist submission or refuse to yield in disputes. The readiness to use violence or resort to death threats under the pretext of minor issues exposes the continuing threat Hindu communities face, as these incidents are not isolated or spontaneous but part of an ongoing pattern of religiously motivated violence. Furthermore, the fact that the perpetrators invoked violence against Hindus generally, rather than directing abuse solely at Manoj Kumar, is particularly significant. Their words expanded the scope of the confrontation beyond the individual victim and conveyed hostility towards Hindus as a religious community. Such rhetoric is capable of intimidating not only the immediate victim but also other Hindus who may perceive themselves as potential targets of similar hostility. Importantly, even if the Muslim men genuinely believed that Manoj Kumar had behaved harshly or disproportionately towards the children, the appropriate course of action would have been to approach the police, lodge a complaint, or pursue any other lawful remedy available under the legal system. Instead of seeking legal redress, they resorted to unlawful violence by entering his shop, physically assaulting him, causing injuries, damaging his goods, and shouting, "Kill Hindus." This sequence of events demonstrates that the response was not merely an attempt to address a perceived grievance but an act of violent vigilantism accompanied by an explicitly communal message targeting Hindus. Similarly, the Hinduphobia Tracker has previously documented numerous instances where non-religious triggers sparked communal violence against Hindus by Muslims. For example, on 30th May 2025, in Dewran Garhiya village, Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, a minor verbal altercation between two Hindu men and a Muslim man escalated into a violent assault by a large Muslim mob, inflaming communal tensions. In another incident on 7th July 2025 in Bhavna Nagar, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, a Hindu family was brutally attacked by a Muslim mob of nearly 80 people following a simple dispute over garbage disposal. Victims suffered severe injuries from sharp weapons. Similarly, on 22nd June 2025 in Ghongade Basti, Solapur, Maharashtra, a minor road dispute led to a targeted communal assault on Hindus by a large Muslim mob, sparking widespread clashes. Taken together, the violent assault, the damage to the victim's property, the absence of any attempt to pursue lawful remedies, and, most importantly, the use of the slogan "Kill Hindus" establish that this incident was not an ordinary assault arising from a neighbourhood disagreement. The explicit anti-Hindu slogan provided a clear expression of religious hostility and broadened the attack beyond the individual victim to the Hindu community as a whole. For these reasons, the case meets the criteria for inclusion in the Hinduphobia Tracker as a hate crime targeting a Hindu victim. Disclaimer: The number of perpetrators has been recorded as 9 based on the victim's complaint, which named three accused and stated that they were accompanied by five or six others. As the exact number of unidentified individuals has not been conclusively established, this figure represents the upper end of the range reported at the time of filing the complaint and may be revised if further information emerges.