More than a dozen African nationals were allegedly attacked in the Rajpur Khurd village near Chhatarpur area in South Delhi on Wednesday night. According to the senior police officers of the South district, they have registered three FIRs on Friday. However, they have ruled out the possibility of racial attack.
On the other hand, African nationals who were injured in the incident told how the locals turned violent hitting them with cricket bats, damaging their cars by breaking down the windshields when they tried to escape the attack.
On Wednesday night in the areas of Rajpur Khurd village near Chhatarpur and in the Maidan Garhi, some African nationals were allegedly attacked over by the locals over playing loud music at late hours as well as drinking alcohol in public. This led to minor scuffles between the locals and the African nationals in which one Nigerian national suffered minor injuries, said senior police officers.
“Based on the minor scuffles in the area of Mehruali police station, three cases were registered and investigation was taken up,” said Ishwar Singh, DCP (South).
According to the police, one Nigerian man named Leuchy received minor injuries on his nose. He was taken to AIIMS Trauma Centre and was discharged later.
Meanwhile, according to the police, none of the African Nationals agreed to give a complaint. However, acting on the complaints of the local people, criminal cases were registered. Police said that they have identified some of the accused persons involved in the incidents and efforts are on to arrest them.
Police also held meeting with the Resident Welfare Associations briefing them not to take law into their hands and not to misbehave with foreign nationals, living in the area. On the other hand, Shamira, one of the Africans living in Rajpur Khurd told Millennium Post: “I have been living in Delhi for past few years. Yet what happened day before yesterday (Thursday) was horrible. These people took out cricket bats to hit us. We had to literally run as a large number of people near our houses
after a heated argument broke out between my friends and the locals.”