Farmers Movement Archive

In New Zealand, Indian held for threatening Sikh youth rearrested

JALANDHAR: An Indian youth, released on bail following his arrest by the New Zealand police for posting threatening and abusive comments against a Sikh youth, has been arrested again for violating bail restrictions. Meanwhile, Facebook group ‘Indians in New Zealand’, where he and others has posted messages, has also been deleted. Tarun Madan, whose Facebook profile mentions that he hails from Delhi, was arrested on March 19 and later released on bail. He was arrested again on Friday morning by the Auckland police, after he was found to have violated a restriction laid down in his bail order. In a post in ‘Indians in New Zealand’ group, the Sikh youth on whose complaint police registered a case and arrested Madan, was called a “Khalistani terrorist”. His mobile phone number was also given in the post and he was accused of running malicious hate campaign against all Indians. The post asked people to report him to police while posting his pictures. Madan, in his comments on the same FB group, had threatened to come to the Sikh’s residence to teach him a lesson. In the same post, he also abused two other Sikh men. The comments by Indians in New Zealand on social media platforms were largely a fallout of bitterness between groups supporting and opposing the three contentious farm laws being opposed by the farmers here. A similar bitterness has also been visible in Canada and Australia.

The Times of India

2021-03-28

World