A 50-year-old cloth vendor, Mohammad Athar Hussain, succumbed to his injuries late Friday night at Biharsharif Sadar Hospital, days after being brutally assaulted in a mob lynching incident in the Roh police station area of Nawada district.
A week after a 57-year-old Muslim taxi driver from Agra was harassed and allegedly assaulted for refusing to chant Jai Sri Ram, the main accused, Rohit Thakur, has been arrested.
A Muslim woman passenger wearing a burqa, who appeared as a witness in the case of RPF constable Chetansinh Chaudhary, accused of going on a rampage aboard a moving train in July 2023 and killing three Muslim men and a colleague from the tribal community, told a local court on Monday that he forced her to chant “Jai Mata Di” at gunpoint.