Doctors and victims first segregated as Hindus, then thrashed by Muslim mob after Nuh violence

Case ID : fdf2ecd | Location : Nuh, Haryana, India | Date of Incident : Sun, 30 July, 2023

Case ID : fdf2ecd

Nuh, Haryana, India

30 July, 2023

Doctors and victims first segregated as Hindus, then thrashed by Muslim mob after Nuh violence

Attack not resulting in death

Attacked for Hindu identity

Case Summary

A violent Muslim mob invaded a hospital in Haryana's Nuh, targeting doctors and Hindu victims of the then-recent violence. Over fifty rioters stormed the hospital, segregating Hindus from Muslims and assaulting them. Hindu doctors and patients, including a three-year-old girl, were brutally beaten with sticks. Even a pregnant woman was not spared, suffering injuries to her arms and legs as she tried to escape the mob. Police identified two culprits, Nadir and Anjum, through CCTV footage and arrested them for their involvement in the riots and violence.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

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 Haryana's Nuh Muslim population took offence to Hindus taking out a religious procession during the holy month of Shravan. When the procession was passing through Nuh, a Muslim-majority region in Haryana, the Muslim mob attacked the Hindu devotees. The testimonies of Hindu victims revealed that the attack was a religiously motivated one as Islamists were selectively attacking the Hindus after knowing their religious identities. This report reveals that the accused barged into a hospital, segregated Hindus from Muslims and assaulted them. The attack was completely unprovoked and motivated by hostility or prejudice against Hindus and their religious practices. Such acts are driven by intolerance and a desire to intimidate or harm individuals based on their religious identity and qualify as a hate crime.