Over 72 hours after a Mumbai shopkeeper was assaulted for not speaking in Marathi – his ordeal filmed and circulated online by the assailants – and over 24 hours after the FIR was filed, the police will finally record the statements of the accused, sources told NDTV Thursday morning.
The seven men – members of Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, which has refused to apologise for the assault – will be deposed at the Deputy Commissioner of Police’s office.
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