Alleges he was threatened to go back to Kashmir or face consequences
Mumbai: A Kashmiri businessman, living in the business capital from last over a deacde was thrashed by a group of goons on Tuesday.
According to eyewitness, Kashmiri businessman, identified as Younis Rather of Padshahi Bagh, Srinagar, of Kashmir was beaten to pulp by a group of local goons at Colaba in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He was later shifted to the nearby government hospital, where his condition is said to be normal.
Eyewitness said that Rather, was was chased by few men outside his colaba shop in Mumbai and was ruthlessly thrashed. The businessman was waiting for his foreign client to welcome him at his shop as the festivity of the Ramazan was round the corner.
“Some of the local goons, motivated by few local shopkeepers here grabbed me by my throat and thrashed me ruthlessly,” Rather told The Presspact. “They tore apart my shirt and threatened me that I should close my business here which I am running from last 18 year or bear the consequences,” he alleged.
Younis said that the men abused him and called him names using regional slurs. “They addressed me with a refrain, ‘you Kashmiris are like this’.”
After the incident, the victim’s
colleagues and friends called the police and his neighbour for help, while he remained hospitalised.
Younis told said that he later came to know that the attackers were in in glove with some his neighbouring business outlets or shopkeepers. He alleged that the owner of Royal Buttons along with his goons attacked him and threatened him to work in the area. The local Kashmiri businessmen at Colaba in Mumbai have appealed Prime Minister Modi to intervene and save them from the wrath of such elements in Mumbai, which is a city of dreams.
The attacks on Kashmiri businessmen have become a routine. Earlier Kashmiri Muslim labourers were attacked in Assam. Before that, in April a similar incident was reported from Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh.
