NEW DELHI: Malayali students were brutally beaten up in Delhi on charges of theft. Kozhikode native Ashwant IT and Kasaragod native Sudhin K, first-year political science students of Zakir Husain Delhi College, were beaten up by a gang of assailants and the police. The students have filed a complaint with the Delhi Police Commissioner and the National Human Rights Commission, saying that the mundu they were wearing was yanked off and they were kicked in the face for not speaking Hindi.

The incident took place at a market near the Red Fort on Wednesday night. At around 7 pm, a man approached the students, allegedly offering them an Apple Watch and a phone. After they refused, he returned with about six others five minutes later and beat them up, accusing them of stealing his phone. The stu

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