A police officer said there was no ‘communal angle’ to the lynching but the relatives of the 26-year-old victim, Mohammed Isaar, suspect that he was killed on the suspicion of stealing prasad from a Ganesh Chaturthi stall
Ramesh Bidhuri, who shamed Parliament and the nation with his vile bigotry directed at a Muslim member of the House, seems to have been rewarded with a key electoral responsibility
Isaar’s family members and neighbours have alleged that several Hindu residents who had flocked to the area remained mute spectators as the youth was mercilessly assaulted