NEW DELHI – A Muslim family and their guests were attacked in the Indianvillage of Dhamaspur in Gurgaon on Holi evening.

A group of between 20 to 25 men burst into their house and beat them withsticks and rods.

According to *Indian Expresslink,*theincident occurred after some men approached boys of the family who wereplaying cricket outside and demanded they “go to Pakistan and play”.

One man was arrested for the attack. According to the FIR, the attackoccurred at 5pm at the house of Mohammad Sajid, a native of Uttar Pradeshwho had been living in the village with his wife and six children for threeyears.

Sajid’s nephew Dilshaad, who was one of the victims of the attack, saidthey were playing cricket in a vacant plot near their house when two menapproached them on a motorcycle and told them to go to Pakistan and play.They began fighting and when my uncle intervened, the boy sitting at theback of the bike slapped him and said ‘You wait, we will show you’,narrated Dilshaad.

He said 10 minutes late, six boys on bikes and several men approached theirhome armed with “spears, sticks and swords”.

He said they ran into their house and the men demanded they come out orthey would kill them. “When we did not go out, they forced their way in andstarted beating us up,” he said in his police complaint.