A day after a video of a mahant threatening to abduct and rape Muslim women outside a mosque in Khairabad went viral, the National Commission for Women wrote to the UP DGP seeking action on Friday. But for a large section of the TV news media, it remained business as usual – giving the coverage a miss to instead focus on its mainstay topics such as Pakistan, Ukraine and azaan.
The video was tweeted on Thursday by Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, who said the event took place on April 2. It purportedly shows a man in a police uniform present at the gathering while Bajrang Muni, mahant of Maharshi Shri Lakshman Das Udasin Ashram, makes incendiary remarks on a loudspeaker before a gathering of young men and minors outside Sheeshe Waali Masjid in Sitapur district.
