Overview
- Purported videos showed alleged Bajrang Dal members barging into Den Restaurant and Cafe, assaulting students and chanting “Jai Shri Ram” during a nursing student’s small party.
- Police first detained and challaned two Muslim students and a cafe staffer under BNSS preventive provisions for disturbing the peace before releasing them on bonds.
- Following the cafe owner’s complaint, FIR No. 532/25 named Rishabh Thakur and Deepak Pathak, along with 20–25 others, under BNS sections covering house-trespass, voluntarily causing hurt, criminal intimidation, rioting and mischief.
- Bareilly police said they are identifying additional participants, tracing the two named suspects, and have opened a departmental inquiry into the Prem Nagar SHO’s handling of the incident.
- Reports on injuries diverged, with the owner alleging a head wound and a broken finger among victims, while officials said no serious injuries were recorded.