'Hamara irada kisi ka dil dukhana nahi tha': TikTok star Faisu apologises for making inciting video on Tabrez lynching

A day after outrage erupted over for allegedly circulating a video on TikTok related to the mob lynching of Tabrez Ansari in Jharkhand, 'mr faisu 07', one of the members of the group 'Team 07' which put out the video, has apologised on his Instagram.

Tendering an apology, mr faisu said, "We would like to apologise sincerely if any people have felt hurt by our video. Hamara irada, kisi ka dil dukhana, ya unka apmaan karna, nahi tha. Humne video ko nikaal diya hai. Jai Hindi!" (Our intention was not to hurt anyone, or insult anyone. The video has been removed, Jai Hind!)

 

 

 

 

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A post shared by FAISAL SHAIKH (@mr_faisu_07) on Jul 8, 2019 at 9:28am PDT

The video was uploaded on the social media app Tiktok by Faisu, Hasnain, Faiz and Sadhan (Saddu).

In two videos the whole gang that goes with the name 'Team 07' was seen enacting a message that says, "Innocent Tabrez was killed, but if Tabrez's son grows up and takes revenge then Muslims shouldn't be termed as terrorists." 

Shiv Sena activist Ramesh Solanki reported the matter to police and registered a complaint against five Tiktok users who have a combine following that of 4 crore people.

When contacted Solanki, he said, "The videos were divisive, the users who uploaded the video were asking others to take revenge, this is asking people to get violent. We shouldn't tolerate such form of violence." 

Solanki had also said that the taking down of video was no big deal and instead his demand is that these people should be banned, their accounts suspended. The videos within hours had received lakhs of like and had thousands of comments on it, before they were taken down.

Santosh R, Senior Police Inspector of LT Marg Police Station, where Solanki filed the complaint had said, "We have received a complaint, and are yet to decide to further course on the complaint." 

After the matter was highlighted, video making app Tiktok also issued a statement saying, "TikTok has zero tolerance for content that incites violence against other users or any content that violates its Community Guidelines. In line with this, the video in question, which has violated our Community Guidelines, is no longer available on TikTok."

"Such irresponsible acts will not be tolerated on our platform, hence we have suspended three user accounts and are cooperating with law enforcement agencies. - The three user accounts belonged to Hasnain Khan, Faisal Shaikh and Sadhan Faroqui,” TikTok said.