Palwal, December 17: In India, a 27-year-old Muslim man was thrashed to death by Hindutva goons in India city Palwal district of Haryana. Rahul Khan, a resident of Rasoolpur village near Palwal town, was kidnaped by a gang of Hindu goons on the night of December 13 when he had gone away to attend a marriage, his brother-in-law Mohammad Akhram told Clarion India on the phone.
Khan succumbed to his injuries at a hospital on December 14 at around 10 pm. He was laid to rest on Wednesday afternoon, his family said, calling it a case of lynching.
According to Akram, the matter was initially passed off as an accident and the police complaint also says so but on Thursday Dec 16 morning, a video surfaced which showed Khan pleading before some men (not visible) for his life. They can be heard repeating words, “Hum Hindu hain” (We are Hindu).
Clarion India could not independently establish the veracity of the video shared by the family.
Moreover, Akram said, on deathbed Khan told his wife that he was beaten up by three men. “The attackers had bashed his head brutally. It looked like a smashed melon.” said Akram. “His feet were also injured and bloody.”
A day before the kidnap, a man named Kalwa showed up at Khan’s house looking for him. Kalwa warned his wife to tell Khan that he had come to see him.
Ironically, Kalwa informed the family about Khan’s whereabouts. He told the family that he had found Khan in the injured state from the river side and kept him at his home. The family rushed to Kalwa’s home and took him to hospital where he passed away almost 6 hours after admission.
“We initially believed that it was accident but Khan’s own statement and now the video clarifies that it is a case of lynching,” said Akram.The family demanded that police register a case of murder against the culprits.Multiple calls to police station Chandut Palwal for comment on the matter went answered.
Meanhwhile,a special court in Surat on Thursday awarded death sentence to a 24-year-old man convicted for the rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl in the Pandesara area in 2020 under the Protection of Children for Sexual Offenses (POSCO) Act.
Earlier, the Surat city police had filed the chargesheet in a record time of 13 days, following which the court ordered, Dinesh Dashrath Besane, the convict, to pay Rs 15 lakh as compensation to the victim’s family.
Besane had lured the minor girl by tempting her with a ‘vada pav’ while she was playing near her house on December 7, 2020, and raped her in a deserted location.
After that, Besane killed the child by hitting her with a brick several times and fled the spot. The post-mortem report showed about 47 injury marks on her body.
This is the second death sentence handed down by a Surat court under the POSCO Act in the last 10 days. On December 7, a 35-year-old man was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 2-year-old girl. — IANS