Hyderabad, June 9 -- Two Muslim men were publicly paraded and humiliated through the streets of Sanjauli in Shimla by members of the Devbhoomi Sangharsh Samiti, a VHP-affiliated Hindu outfit, on Saturday, June 6, in a brazen act of mob vigilantism over alleging "love jihad". However, the duo had nothing to do with the original complaint.

"Love Jihad" is an unsubstantiated, right-wing conspiracy theory that alleges a calculated plot by Muslim men to lure, woo, and convert Hindu women into Islam.

A video of the incident went viral on social media, showing the two UP residents being dragged through the market, humiliated in full public view, with CCTV cameras at their shop broken to destroy evidence. Police confirmed that neither man was n...