Delhi violence: Man forced to sing national anthem by Police dies

By Lokmat English Desk | Published: February 29, 2020 02:41 PM2020-02-29T14:41:08+5:302020-02-29T14:42:37+5:30

A video from the Delhi riots has been going viral on social media in which policemen can be seen ...

Delhi violence: Man forced to sing national anthem by Police dies | Delhi violence: Man forced to sing national anthem by Police dies

Delhi violence: Man forced to sing national anthem by Police dies

A video from the Delhi riots has been going viral on social media in which policemen can be seen making a 23 year old young man and four other young men sing national anthem, has died of his injuries. 

The man in the video has been indentified as Faizan, who stays in Kardampuri in the northeast Delhi, one of the worst areas hit by riots. 

The video emerged during the four days of violence over the citizenship law in a part of Delhi, in which atleast 42 people have died and hundreds injured. Faizan died on Thursday.

The viral video has been verified by fact-checking website AltNews -  shows five men, injured, lying on a road and singing the national anthem. Some of them are being made to sing the national anthem. A group of policemen in riot gear can be seen standing around the men. Two of them are pointing their lathis on the faces of the men. "Acchi tarah gaa (sing well)," a male voice can be heard saying.

Faizan was declared dead at Delhi's Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital. His family alleges he and the other men seen in the video were taken into police custody and beaten.

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