Uttar Pradesh: Man’s hair shaved off for posting morphed photos on Facebook

A man’s hair was shaved off, face blackened and paraded for allegedly posting his morphed photos with girls on social media. The man is identified as Waqeel.

According to NDTV report, he was beaten up by locals and later handed over to Police over charges against him. A video of him being paraded has gone viral on social media. The incident occurred in Saharakhurd Village, in Uttar Pradesh, on November 5.

Waqeel’s family members approached the District Magistrate (DM) and forwarded the viral video to the police, demanding an investigation into the matter.

DM Chandrabhushan Singh told NDTV, “There was a video, where a youth was being beaten up by a few men who also shaved his head. I have taken cognisance into the incident and have forwarded the video to the inspector.”

Ifrahim Hussain, a social worker had advocated Waqeel’s innocence and held talks with the District Magistrate, quoted by NDTV saying, “Some goons dragged him from his house, beat him up and paraded him throughout the village. They then took him to a canal and were going to kill him.”

“Thankfully some people intervened and saved his life. Instead of punishing the goons the police jailed him, whereas the goons are disrupting social harmony. Even today they issue threats of murder,” he added.

It is to be noted that, Waqeel’s Facebook account was allegedly hacked by someone else, who had uploaded the morphed images to make him look bad.

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