In Kheda, Gujarat, four Muslims were publicly flogged by the state police, who remain on duty while local Muslim men have been exiled. A month after the incident, the village of Undhela wears a deserted look ― 39 other Muslims have been ordered by the Nadiad Sessions Court not to enter Matar taluka, within which it lies, till March 31, 2023. The Quint reports through a video story that the accused secured bail from the Nadiad Sessions Court against a surety of Rs 15,000 each, on the condition that they would not enter Matar taluka until March 31, 2023.
Young Suhana Bano (34) last saw her father Sabir Ali Sayyed (65) on 4 October. That was the day when at least four Muslim men were tied to a pole and beaten, allegedly by Gujarat police personnel in plain clothes, in her village Undhela in Gujarat’s Kheda district. Soon thereafter, videos of these men being publicly flogged went viral on social media. In one of those videos, Bano saw her father.
“He wasn’t tied to the pole or beaten up. In one of the videos, I saw that a man grabbed him (Sayyed) by his arm and took him straight to the police van,” Bano said as she sat at the counter of her family-run grocery store in the village.
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