Overview
- Bajrang Dal members, led by state convenor Vikas Verma, entered a footwear showroom on Dehradun’s Rajpur Road on Thursday in a confrontation captured in a widely shared clip.
- In the video circulated Saturday, the group is seen confronting Muslim staff and writing the word “jihadi” on snatched name tags, though outlets say the footage has not been independently verified.
- Verma says the group acted on a written complaint that two managers targeted Hindu workers with false theft claims, pay cuts, and 14‑hour shifts without overtime.
- Police say no First Information Report or complaint has reached them yet and they will proceed only if someone files one.
- Bajrang Dal, a Hindu nationalist youth organization, has a record of public interventions that can heighten communal tension, and reporters have not reached the two managers for their response.