Bhopal, May 14 -- Members of Bajrang Dal allegedly assaulted and publicly humiliated a Muslim man for meeting up with a Hindu woman in a hotel room, accusing him of "love jihad" in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal.

Videos of the assault have gone viral on social media, showing multiple Hindutva workers dragging the 27-year-old Arif Khan onto the street, half-naked from the hotel room, smearing paint on his face, while hurling Islamophobic abuses. Local media claimed that the mob also applied cow dung on his face, further humiliating the man.

Taking law into their hands

The incident occurred on May 11, when Arif had gone to meet the woman at the Pride Inn Hotel in Gautam Nagar. The situation escalated when Bajrang Dal received information about ...