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Gurugram: A 25-year-old Muslim man was allegedly attacked by a group of men at Jacobpura in Gurugram on May 25 and was purprtedly told to remove his skullcap and chant 'Jai Shri Ram' slogan.

Mohammad Barkat was returning to his shop around 10:30 pm on Saturday after offering prayers at Jama Masjid in Gurugram when a group of about half a dozen men allegedly cornered him and told him to remove his skull cap.

The victim has alleged that the men told him to remove his skullcap as it was not allowed in the area and when he said that he was returning from a mosque the men abused and slapped him. He also claimed that was forced to chant "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" and "Jai Shri Ram" and when he refused they threatened to feed him pork.

Meanwhile, Gurugram Police has said that there is no communal angle behind the incident and added that the CCTV footage shows a scuffle between two men near the sweets shop and not a group of individuals.

So far, no arrests have been made.

As per the FIR, the victim stated that the incident took place outside Shyam sweets in Sadar Bazar, when two men walking on the road approached him and asked him to take off the skullcap. When he refused, four more men on bikes arrived at the spot and verbally abused the victim for not removing the skullcap.

The victim alleged that while the bike-borne men fled the spot, the two men on feet attacked him and even threatened to kill him.

This is the second incident in which Muslim men have been targeted.

Recently, cow vigilantes brutally thrashed three persons in Madhya Pradesh's Seoni for allegedly carrying beef.

A group of five 'gau rakshaks' had allegedly beaten up two men with sticks and then forced one of them to thrash a woman accompanying them with chappals, reported PTI.

The video of the incident went viral on the internet in which five accused can be seen beating up the two men.

The attackers also forced them to raise 'Jai Sri Ram' slogan. Later, an FIR has been registered against all the accused and they were arrested.

The accused have been booked under sections 341 (wrongful restraint), 294 (obscene act), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), and 34 (act done by several persons with common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and under Arms Act.

The men who were thrashed for carrying beef were also booked under the Madhya Pradesh Govansh Vadh Pratishedh Adhiniyam.