KALYAN: A cab driver with an aggregator service has lodged a complaint with Manpada police alleging that he was assaulted by two unidentified bike-borne youths in Dombivli early Sunday morning “for being a Muslim.”Hafiz Zihauddin Siddiqui, who earlier worked as a maulvi, has alleged that the youths objected to his having parked his vehicle along the side of the road and started beating him up. “And when I screamed ‘Ya Allah yeh kya ho raha hai (What is happening, Allah?)’ during the assault, I was thrashed further and an attempt made to target my private parts,” he said.The youths fled when they saw a car coming up from behind, he added. He also said that the Manpada police station registered only a non-cognisable offence (NC) in the matter on Sunday. But when TOI asked senior inspector at the station Abhay Kabdule on Monday, he said they would file an FIR in the case and would carry out a detailed probe.Siddiqui is a resident of Santacruz. He began working as a driver with the aggregator some time ago as he did not have any source of income for six months after he quit his job as a maulvi even though his wife was suffering from cancer. According to Siddiqui, at 1.20am on Sunday, he dropped a customer from Ghatkopar at Dombivli (W) and then got another customer for Dombivli (E). After having dropped the second customer on Manpada Road, he got an alert on his phone saying a woman customer had booked his cab from that spot. He said he had parked his car along the side of the road to wait for the customer when he saw two youths arrive on a motorcycle.Believing they could be relatives of the woman customer (as people sometimes book cabs in someone else’s name), he opened the door on his (driver’s) side, he said. “The youths stopped their bike at the spot and asked me, ‘Why have you parked your car here?’. And they started assaulting me. I could not understand why I was being hit as I had done no wrong, nor had I parked wrongly or obstructed any building gate. When I invoked Allah’s name they hit me more and tried to attack my private parts,” he alleged.Though the attackers fled after seeing a car coming in from behind, Siddiqui said that as he was worried they would return, he cancelled the woman customer’s trip and went to a police chowky nearby. But it was locked. At the same time, he got another alert saying he was getting a trip to Mumbai airport, so he picked up the customer and dropped him.“My face was swollen when I woke up on Sunday morning, so I first took treatment at VL Desai Hospital in Santacruz and later approached the Vakola police. But the cops there refused to take a complaint, saying he should approach Manpada police under whose jurisdiction the incident took place. Later that night I approached Manpada police who only registered an NC under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of the Indian Penal Code. Siddiqui said the police should arrest his attackers at the earliest since he had been grievously attacked.