AHMEDABAD: A 24-year-old man from

district of

was allegedly thrashed by a group of 10 people in a residential society on

road in

on Saturday over suspicion of child lifting, states FIR filed with Ghatlodia police.

Mohammed Asif Hanif Multani, who sells women dress materials by roaming around in the city, had gone to Ghatlodia in a hired autorickshaw along with his two friends, Fazin Mohammed Zakir and Afvan Isteqar on Saturday morning.

At Shantanu society in Ghatlodia, Multani saw a woman, who was talking on her cellphone outside a house, and asked her on if she wanted to buy clothes but the woman denied. Meanwhile, a man came from the same house, and asked on why Multani was roaming there, reads the FIR.

To this, Multani told the man that he came there to sell clothes but the man went aggressive and asked on how he dared to enter the society.

“The man threatened me with dire consequences and rushed towards me, before I could understand anything, he held me by my collar and slapped me,” states Multani in the FIR.

Scared with this, Multani ran to protect himself but the man chased him on scooter and held him soon. Later, around 10 other men rushed there and started thrashing Multani.

The man, who chased Multani, asked him that he had come there to lift children. Listening to this, other men started beating him with belt, sticks and helmet in which Multani suffered injuries. Some of them tore his clothes also, states the FIR.

Meanwhile, some locals called up police who rescued Multani and took him to Ghatlodia police station.

Multani, a resident of

town in Muzaffarnagar, told TOI, “The man asked me on why I entered the society without permission as I told him that I was new to this place. He asked for my identity proofs and I showed him my Aadhaar card. After reading my name, he went furious, thrashed me and provoked others saying that I was a criminal.”

“Had the cops did not come there, they would have lynched me to death,” added Multani.

Inspector PN Gamit of Ghatlodia police said that the man identified as Dashrath Prajapati, 54, was arrested on Saturday under charges of assault and unlawful assembly but he was released on bail by a local court on Sunday when the cops produced him seeking remand.