Hawzah News Agency - (New Delhi - India) - Indian police engaged in direct violence against Muslims and helped Hindu mobs in their atrocities against Muslims, or just stood aside watching, as Hindu extremists targeted the Muslim minority in the capital, New Delhi, last month, a new report shows.

The New York Times in a report on Thursday presented newly-emerged evidence of Indian police directly engaging in violence against Muslims or actively helping the Hindu mobs during rampages in the capital late last month, when they torched Muslim homes and targeted Muslim families.

The report recounted the story of Kaushar Ali, a Muslim house painter, who was on his way home when he ran into a battle between Muslims and Hindu mobs in a neighborhood of the capital on February 24, a day after India’s worst sectarian bloodshed in years began and lasted for several days.

Ali said that he had turned to some police officers for help, but instead, the officers threw him onto the ground and cracked him on the head. The police officers started beating him and several other Muslims, he said, adding that he and the other ill-fated Muslims laid bleeding and begging for mercy, but to no avail. One of them succumbed to severe internal injuries two days later.

Ali added that the police officers laughed at them, jabbed them with their sticks, and forced them to sing the national anthem.

This police violence was captured on video from two different angles, a close shot, filmed by one of the police officers, and a long shot, by a passerby.

“The police were toying with us,” Ali said, recalling them saying, “Even if we kill you, nothing will happen to us.”

That has been the case, as no one has faced justice even as dozens of Muslims have been killed in violence.