Aligarh: BJP leader 'punishes' Muslim boy seen wearing 'kalava', alleges 'boy tried to entice Hindu girls'

Aligarh: In a shocking incident, former mayor of Aligarh, Shakuntala Bharti, was on Friday caught on camera making a boy, belonging to a minority community, do sit-ups as a punishment for allegedly wearing a kalava (sacred Hindu thread) around his wrist. 

The incident took place in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh. In the video, Bharti, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, is seen alleging that the boy was trying to entice girls in the area.

However, the boy alleged that the red thread was actually from Ajmer Sharif dargah. "Why have you come here? Does your sister stay here?" asks the BJP leader and directs him to hold his ears. 

"Will you make the minor girls run away (from their homes?" further asks the ex-Aligarh mayor.

A mob can be seen surrounding her and the boy.

Bharti was in news in 2016 when a communal clash had broken out between two communities over an incident of eve-teasing. The incident had prompted 10 Hindu families in the Aligarh district to seek the district magistrate's permission for selling their properties and leaving the Babri Mandi area.

Bharti, the then Aligarh mayor, had alleged that people belonging to one community were making it hard for the families to continue living in the area.