Tajuddin, a resident of Gausnagar in Saraikela Kharswa district, while coming back from market was brutally attacked by a mob alleging theft
Waquar Hasan | Clarion India
NEW DLEHI – A 50-year-old Muslim man succumbed to the injuries a week after he was assaulted by a group of people over the allegation of theft in Jharkhand’s Jamshedpur district.
The deceased Tajuddin, who is the resident of Gausnagar in Saraikela Kharswa district, died on 13 December six days after he was beaten up with sticks and rods on 8 December in the Adityapur area when he was out for trading purpose.
According to a complaint filed by Tabrez Alam, son of Tajuddin, his father had gone out to Adityapur area for buying vegetables and other necessary works. When he was coming back, some people attacked him with sticks and rods shouting ‘thief, thief’.
“When the police reached, all of the attackers ran away. The police took my father, who was in unconscious state, to the TMH Jamshedpur hospital. I got to know that if the police had not reach the spot, my father would have been killed by those attackers,” reads the complaint filed on 8 December days before his death.
Alam named Mannu Yadav, Chela Yadav, Sanjay Yadav, Arun Yadav, Gautam Mandal in his complaint. These accused were arrested after filing an FIR under the BNS sections 109 (attempt to murder), 126 (2) punishment for wrongful restraint and 117 (2) punishment for voluntarily causing grievous hurt among others.
According to family members, Tajuddin, who was a small-time trader, had gone out after offering early morning namaz. Around 10 o’clock, his son got a call that Tajuddin met with an accident. When they reached at the spot, they found that the deceased was seriously injured. He was not able to speak anything. He had grave injuries in his head.
The family completely rejected the allegation of theft calling it “a lie”. “He was a simple man. He was targeted after seeing his skull-cap and beard. He was not such man who will indulge in anti-social activities,” Tajuddin’s nephew said.
Meanwhile, the police denied that the victim was attacked due to his religious identity .
Afzal, an activists based in Jharkhand, called it an incident of “mob lynching”.
“It gives an impression that the incident is a mob lynching. When will an act eventually be made against the mob lynching in Jharkhand? Till when people from a particular community will be killed after being targeted in the name of cow and goat theft,” said Afzal.
He urged Hemant Soren government to send anti-lynching bill to the governor for third time so that the law can be passed. The government had sent back the bill two times.
