Incendiary rhetoric from BJP leaders prompts concerns of Hindu radicalisation in India
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An unidentified teenager brandishing a gun during a protest on Jan 30 against a new citizenship law outside the Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi, India.
PHOTO: REUTERS
KOLKATA - An armed man arrives at the scene of the attack. He live streams videos of himself walking around on Facebook, and posts messages that glorify his worldview before firing a shot. Many would associate this dark sequence of events with the unprecedented Christchurch mosque attacks last March that left 51 dead.
But this series of events played out in Delhi on Jan 30, and the shot was fired by a 17-year-old Hindu at a crowd protesting a law which expedites citizenship for persecuted non-Muslims from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The shooter, who cannot be named because he is a minor under Indian law, was apprehended by the police before he could fire again and is currently under protective custody.
