A video is being widely circulated on social media showing an elderly Muslim man being thrashed in Ghaziabad's Loni. The Ghaziabad Police is now claiming that there is no communal angle to the incident and that the man knew the assailants personally. Abdul Samad, 72, was thrashed by six people on June 5. The assailants also chopped off his beard, as can be seen in the viral video.