<p>Within days of the alleged thrashing of a 'madarsa' (Islamic Seminary) in a moving train in Uttar Pradesh, yet another Muslim youth was allegedly assaulted for refusing to chant 'Jai Shriram' in state's Kanpur town, about 90 kilometres from here.</p>.<p>According to the police sources here on Saturday, the youth, identified as Taj Mohammed, was beaten up by three-four unidentified persons in Barra locality while he was on his way home after offering prayers at a nearby mosque on Friday evening.</p>.<p>The youth alleged in his complaint lodged with the police that the motorbike-borne miscreants asked him to take off his skull cap and chant 'Jai Shriram'.</p>.<p>''I took off the cap but refused to chant Jai Shriram...they started thrashing me after my refusal....some passers-by rescued me...the miscreants fled after people started assembling there,'' he said.</p>.<p>Police said that a case was registered and the investigation was on. ''We are trying to identify the miscreants,'' said a police official in Kanpur.</p>.<p>Barely a few days back a Muslim teen, who was a student of a madarsa in Bareilly town in the state, was allegedly ''abused, assaulted, stripped'' inside a passenger train near Babrala in Sambhal district by some youths.</p>.<p>There have been a spate of incidents of thrashing of members of the minority community in different parts of the country in the past few days.</p>.<p>Barely four days back a 'madrasa' teacher was allegedly forced to chant 'Jai Shriram' and later pushed out of a running train near a railway station in West Bengal. Earlier a Muslim youth was also forced to chant 'Jai Shriram' and allegedly lynched to death by a mob in Jharkhand. </p>.<p>Muslim outfits on Saturday took processions in the state capital to register their protest over the incidents.</p>
<p>Within days of the alleged thrashing of a 'madarsa' (Islamic Seminary) in a moving train in Uttar Pradesh, yet another Muslim youth was allegedly assaulted for refusing to chant 'Jai Shriram' in state's Kanpur town, about 90 kilometres from here.</p>.<p>According to the police sources here on Saturday, the youth, identified as Taj Mohammed, was beaten up by three-four unidentified persons in Barra locality while he was on his way home after offering prayers at a nearby mosque on Friday evening.</p>.<p>The youth alleged in his complaint lodged with the police that the motorbike-borne miscreants asked him to take off his skull cap and chant 'Jai Shriram'.</p>.<p>''I took off the cap but refused to chant Jai Shriram...they started thrashing me after my refusal....some passers-by rescued me...the miscreants fled after people started assembling there,'' he said.</p>.<p>Police said that a case was registered and the investigation was on. ''We are trying to identify the miscreants,'' said a police official in Kanpur.</p>.<p>Barely a few days back a Muslim teen, who was a student of a madarsa in Bareilly town in the state, was allegedly ''abused, assaulted, stripped'' inside a passenger train near Babrala in Sambhal district by some youths.</p>.<p>There have been a spate of incidents of thrashing of members of the minority community in different parts of the country in the past few days.</p>.<p>Barely four days back a 'madrasa' teacher was allegedly forced to chant 'Jai Shriram' and later pushed out of a running train near a railway station in West Bengal. Earlier a Muslim youth was also forced to chant 'Jai Shriram' and allegedly lynched to death by a mob in Jharkhand. </p>.<p>Muslim outfits on Saturday took processions in the state capital to register their protest over the incidents.</p>