Bihar: Young man stabbed in Sitamarhi on watching video of Nupur Sharma

DN Bureau

Jha had sustained grievous injuries. He told reporters that he was going through his WhatsApp when some bystanders picked up a quarrel with him before attacking him. Read further on Dynamite News:

Ankit Jha was admitted to the hospital
Ankit Jha was admitted to the hospital


Sitamarhi: A young man was stabbed by people of another community in Bihar on allegedly watching a video of suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma, though police asserted that the incident had "no communal angle".

The incident took place in Nanpur police station area of Sitamarhi district on Friday where Ankit Jha, 23, was stabbed several times at a betel shop after which he was rushed to a hospital.

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Jha had sustained grievous injuries. He told reporters that he was going through his WhatsApp when some bystanders picked up a quarrel with him before attacking him.

A section of the press has quoted Jha's family members as having alleged that an FIR was registered "only after" they deleted the reference to Sharma, in news for derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad in a TV debate, whose video the victim was watching on his phone.

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However, Sitamarhi SP Har Kishor Rai asserted that there was "no communal angle" to the incident and that two of the four persons named in the FIR have been arrested. (PTI)










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