Hyderabad, April 14 -- A young Muslim woman was brutally assaulted by members of her community, with one of her attackers trying to pull her hijab in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district.

A video of the assault has gone viral on social media, prompting the UP police to take action against the attackers. Six people have been arrested so far.

The incident took place on April 12 in the city's Khalapar area.

In the video, the 20-year-old woman screams in horror as one of her attackers forcibly removes her hijab while others physically assault and abuse her.

The woman was accompanying a Hindu man, a colleague of her mother. She was at the Utkarsh Small Finance Bank to collect her mother's EMI on behalf of the bank.

Later, she lodged a c...