Fact Check: Did MP govt target kite string seller because he was Muslim?

The Madhya Pradesh police have booked three people and demolished the illegal structures where they were selling glass-coated Chinese kite string after a 20-year-old woman died in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, on Saturday after a glass-coated Chinese manjha slit her throat. Still, a few ‘liberals’ like Radio Mirchi RJ Sayema, NDTV’s Gargi Rawat Ansari, and Ahmed Khabeer, a journalist for Jamia Times, were quick to conjecture that the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh specifically targeted shop owners because they belonged to ‘different faith’. He was a shopkeeper selling manjha, this is justice under the Shivraj government.” MPके उज्जैन में चाइनीज मांझे से एक छात्रा की मौत के बाद पुलिस और नगर निगम की टीम ने मांझा बेचने वाले दुकानदार “अब्दुल वहाब” के घर पर JCB चलवा दी। शिवराज सरकार का इंसाफ़ देखिए@India_NHRC pic.twitter.com/XPJ9Dk7gJY — Ahmed Khabeer احمد خبیر January 16, 2022 While he completely overlooked the names of the other accused persons, he particularly mentioned Abdul Waheb’s name in quotes, implying that the Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s administration is hostile against Muslims in the state. NDTV journalist Gargi Rawat Ansari’s Tweet These three so-called intellectuals presumably later decided to read the news in-depth and realised that the Madhya Pradesh police operation was not geared at the Muslim community in particular because the other two accused were Hindus. Abdul Jabbar, Ritik Jadhav and Vijay Bhavsar booked for selling banned Chinses Manjha Meanwhile, speaking about the case, City Superintendent of Police Pallavi Shukla said three people, identified as Abdul Jabbar, Ritik Jadhav and Vijay Bhavsar, have been booked under IPC section 188, and Chinese string has been seized, following which illegal structures in their homes were razed.