Muzaffarpur, November 3: A Muslim youth was beaten to death at Chhat Ghat in Mahartha village of the Indian state Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district on Sunday.
According to reports, family members of the woman when he met her being his friend started beating Muslim Nihal claiming him of harassment when they saw the couple together at a Chhat Ghat venue.
People joined the family in assaulting him and his friend Faizan. The mob left him assuming him to be dead. The police took him to a nearby hospital where he is being treated. However, his friend Nihal died on the spot.
According to the mother Shamima, of the victim, Nihal alias Ayan, he was invited for the Chhat Puja and was killed by the father of the girl named Shambhu Sa and her maternal uncle Devinder
Family members of Nihal, along with the villagers, started protesting when his dead body reached the village after the postmortem. They demanded the arrest of the woman’s father Shambhu Sa.
“I pleaded with them with folded hands saying don’t do anything to my son. But Shambhu said he would kill him. I was called when they kept him tied. Shambhus and his family killed him,” said Shamima told the local media.
“We want justice. We want the arrest of Shambu Sa. I called him. He told me that he has killed my son,” she said.
Nihal was working at a leather factory in Kolkota and 15 days ago, he came to the village.
Mohammed Bariq, father of Nihal, said when he came to know that his son was caught by Shambhu Sa, he called him saying he could beat and break his hand and leg, but don’t kill him. He even said he was ready to accept whatever punishment he wanted to give him, but asked him to spare his life. Yet he was killed.