'What next, public beheadings?' Outrage over Indian police's 'kangaroo justice' grows after viral video shows officials in civvies flogging nine Muslim men in public in PM Modi's home state of Gujarat
Meanwhile, a member of Gujarat's Legislative Assembly from the opposition Congress party, Gyasudding Sheikh, has demanded action against the policemen.
"Police in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party-ruled Gujarat state publicly flogged 9 Muslim men in front of a cheering crowd chanting 'Hail Mother India' slogans. This is cruel, inhuman & prohibited under the international human rights Law," the statement said. Hindus make up the overwhelming majority of India's 1.4 billion people but when Mahatma Gandhi secured its independence from Britain in 1947 it was as a secular, multi-cultural state.
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