By Hasan Akram
New Delhi: A Kashmiri youth who works as Financial Advisor in a financial technology company Policybazaar, was assaulted by unidentified men in Haryana’s Gurugram city on Thursday evening.
Tariq Bhat, 24, left his office in sector 44 of Gurgaon and was walking towards his rented accommodation – some two kilometres away from his office when a group of unidentified men grabbed his neck, another blindfolded him and the rest began beating him mercilessly.
”One among them stretched my t-shirt and another one attempted to kill me with a sharp thing. But luckily that thing was stuck in my T-shirt and could not harm me,” he said in a complaint filed to the police.
An FIR has been registered at the Sushant Lok Police Station in Gurugram under Sections 506 (criminal intimidation), 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt).
We stand in support of our employee, Tariq Bhat & are in constant touch with local authorities to help him.
The wellness of our employees is paramount to us & we will do everything possible to ensure the safety of everyone from the Policybazaar family.— Policybazaar (@policybazaar) August 20, 2021
Bhat is a resident of Rajwar area of north Kashmir’s Handwara district and has been working in Gurgaon for the last five months. He is the sole bread earner of his family.
J&K Students Association president Nasir Khuehami wrote a series of tweets condemning the incident and seeking action against the culprits.
Policybazaar also expressed solidarity with Bhat. ”We stand in support of our employee, Tariq Bhat & are in constant touch with local authorities to help him… We will do everything possible to ensure the safety of everyone from the Policybazaar family.,” it said in a tweet.