The police have filed a case against the deceased and others under the sections of cow slaughter law and did not invoke the sections related to the lynching in the case against the accused
Team Clarion
NEW DELHI – Family members of Shahe Din, who was lynched by the cow vigilantes in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad on Monday, said that when they saw the dead body, they found that all parts of the deceased were fractured.
Talking to The Print, Shamsad, cousin brother of Shahe Din, said that not a single part of his body was intact after the assault.
“I was at the spot and present in the postmortem house. All parts of the body were fractured. I have also photos of them. His fingers were bent on the opposite side. His hands, ribs, skull, legs were fractured,” he said.
However, the police did not invoke the sections related to the lynching in the case of Shahe Din’s killing. Despite registering the murder FIR, no arrests have been made. Additional Superintendent of Police (City) Kumar Ran Vijay Singh said investigations are ongoing. “We have not been able to arrest anybody in connection with the killing of Qureshi so far,” he said.
The police arrested his friend on Wednesday but have yet to apprehend any suspects in the murder case.
Shahe Din was brutally assaulted by a mob with sticks and rods over the allegation of cow slaughter. Later, the police arrived at the spot and took him to the hospital where he had died. The police have filed a case against Shahe Din and others under the sections of cow slaughter law. An FIR was registered against the unknown in matter related to the murder of Shahe Din.
A 54-minute video of the incident shows a mob using batons and rods to thrash the victim and later kicking him as he lies almost lifeless on the ground. For a brief period, the man is shown stirring and regaining consciousness but the attackers are goaded by the assembled crowd with the chants of “hit him, hit him” accusing him of slaughtering cows.
Shahe Din, who was working as a labourer, was survived by three minor children and wife.
“Who gave them the right to take a human life over the death of an animal? Who are they to take law into their own hands,” asked his widow Rizwana, her words punctuated with sobs. “What happened to my husband is cruel. He was killed before his time.”
Talking about the incident, Shahe Din’s sister-in-law said “We reached the civil hospital and saw him emerge from the CT scan room. He was unconscious and brutally beaten. His eyes and ears were swollen and his fingers broken. He was barely breathing”.
He added that they shifted him to two other hospitals for treatment before he succumbed to injuries early Tuesday morning.
Shahe Din lived with his small family in a rented accommodation, barely four kilometres from the Mandi Samiti area where he was assaulted. He worked in the city’s thriving brass industry as a labourer.
