An interfaith couple which had allegedly eloped last month from Sohi village, following which a Muslim man was beaten to death by right-wing activists, was detained by the police here. Yusuf and the 19-year-old woman were detained by the police here last night. According to SP (Rural) Jagdish Sharma, the two were staying with a relative of Yusuf in Hathin village in Ballabhgarh district of Haryana. Ghulam Mohammad (45), a distant relative of Yusuf, was lynched by some Hindu right-wing activists, who suspected that he knew the whereabouts of the couple who had disappeared on April 27. Ghulam's family had alleged that the activists belonged to the Hindu Yuva Vahini, a right-wing group set up by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

Source: dna May 04, 2017 11:03 UTC