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Jharkhand attack_ Police recorded victim’s ‘confession’ on bike theft, did not mention assault _ Ind

He died on Saturday, after he was rushed to the civil hospital in Saraikela-Kharsawan district and later

He died on Saturday, after he was rushed to the civil hospital in Saraikela-Kharsawan district and later to the Tata Main Hospital in Jamshedpur. On Monday, police arrested 11 residents of Ghatkidih village, where the attack took place, and suspended two police personnel. “We had registered a case against the villagers when we were informed of the beating. We arrested one accused initially, and later 10 others.

We found that the officer in charge of Kharsawan police station and an ASI did not handle the matter with sensitivity. They did not apprise senior officers of the situation,” Karthik S, SP, Saraikela-Kharsawan, told The Indian Express. Read | Jharkhand assault case: Five arrested, two cops suspended Ansari’s family, meanwhile, demanded answers from police on why the assault was not mentioned in the “confession statement”, which was produced before the Chief 68 murdered in Maliana, all accused acquitted 36 years later, residents ask: So who killed our families?

The assault also does not find mention in the FIR registered by police in the case, or in the initial complaint filed against Ansari by Kamal Mahto of Ghatkidih for allegedly stealing a motorcycle. Mahto is now among those arrested by police for his alleged role in the lynching. “We have suspended two police personnel for the lapses. A DSP-rank officer is heading the SIT inquiring the matter and we will get all the facts.

There is also a possibility that Tabrez did not say anything to the police on the beating during his confession,” the SP said. In appeal, Rahul says was mistreated, sentenced to attract Ansari’s uncle Maqsood Alam said he had met his nephew in the police station’s lock-up and found him “very weak and barely able to talk”. “I cannot believe that he never said anything to police about the beating.

The police deliberately left it out. Were the police blind that they did not see that he was badly beaten? Why could the doctors not see his pain?” Alam said. In the statement, Ansari is quoted as saying that he and two other accused, Numair and Irfan, scaled walls, climbed on roof tops and stole a motorcycle “which did not Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani have any registration number” in the village.

Read | Bengal man: Pushed off train for not saying Jai Shri Ram Mahto, the complainant, said in his statement that after they raised an alarm, other Amid back-to-back flops, cinema lovers weigh in on what Malayalam filmmakers should prioritise and residents of the village woke up and found Ansari. “There was a motorcycle without a registration number, wallets and a phone, which was later found out to have been stolen… police were called and Ansari was handed over,”

Mahto said in the In videoclips of the incident, Ansari is seen tied to a pole, beaten by a mob and asked to chant “Jai Shri Ram” and “Jai Hanuman” from early last Tuesday morning, when he was caught, till dawn. Police registered a case under various IPC sections, including for murder, only after ‘Apply for Kidney Donation’: Man the video went viral four days after the attack. However, speaking to reporters Monday, Ashish Batra (IG-Operations), said: “I can’t comment on the video.

It is seen that doctored videos are circulated on social media to hurt religious sentiments.” Records at the civil hospital show that Ansari suffered at least three injuries and complained of “weakness”. The lynching, meanwhile, has triggered a political war of words between the ruling BJP and the Opposition in Jharkhand. “This is the 13th incident of mob lynching in Jharkhand, with a complete breakdown of law and order,” said Hemant Soren, Watch herd of deer prancing at Sanjay Gandhi National Park; count them if you can, says IFS officer Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader.

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Singh told ANI.

Originally published in The Indian Express. Reproduced here as part of the author's clips archive; rights remain with the original publication.

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