FARIDABAD: In a Rohingya settlement behind Mujeri village in Ballabgarh, nobody is wishing each other Eid Mubarak this year. Four men and three women were brutally beaten up by 10 to 12 men of the village on Saturday morning, after they suspected that the refugees could slaughter two buffalo calves which they had brought late on Thursday night.The problem started when the settlers who have been living in the area for over a year got the two calves for themselves and two for the Rohingya settlers of a nearby village from Delhi on Thursday night. The settlers claim they got the animals as a gift for Eid from a well-wisher NGO.On Friday, they had tied them around a tree near their hutments. Around 5.30 pm, two men aged around 25 came and started untying the calves to take them away. A girl from the settlement saw it and alerted others, who asked them why they were stealing their calves. In return, they told them "you've stolen and brought them," and left.Half an hour later, two more people came the same evening and threatened to take away the calves at night, according to the refugees."They asked us not to slaughter the calves, and we told them that we wouldn't, but they didn't believe us and said 'give the animals to us'. We said we would return it to where we got them from instead," says Sakir, one of the men from the camp which houses a total of 110 people, including children."We were worried all night and didn't sleep," says Rashid, one of the people who was injured in the fight that ensued later. On Saturday morning, the Rohingyas were surrounded by 10 to 12 men around 6 am, some of whom had come on bikes and some on foot from Mujeri They thrashed four men of the settlement, and also grabbed two women, beat them and tore their clothes. They also took another woman a little farther into a nearby field and threw her on the ground, who now sits with severe swelling on her knee. Hearing loud noises, the older men interfered.According to Rashid (30), he along with Saif-ul-islam, Mohammadullah (40) and Kaiser (20) were forcefully taken by the men on their bikes across the village to a forest area across the nullah in adjacent Mirjapur, and beaten up with sticks and rods.Rashid says the men who thrashed them were armed with knives. "They had threatened to kill us. It is only when the other refugees reached there, the villagers left," he says.Following an advice from UNHCR representatives, the refugees went to the IMT police chowki, where the cops registered a complaint. A PCR, with six cops, were stationed outside the settlement for the day."We don't feel safe here now. Most of us are ragpickers and go out alone or in groups of two to pick bottles and garbage. The villagers are angry at us, and they have already threatened to kill us," says Ajij-ul Hasan, who has been living in the settlement for over a year.The SHO of Ballabgarh Sadar police station, inspector Hansraj, said an FIR has been registered under sections 147, 148 (rioting), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation), 342 (wrongful confinement), 354 (assault to women with intention to outrage her modesty) and 379B (snatching with the use of force) of the IPC against 10-12 unknown people."It appears to have started with some misunderstanding. We have already identified 2 people, and are raiding the houses in the village. No arrests have been made so far," he said.

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