HYDERABAD: A day after a techie was lynched in Bidar, his heartbroken family has advised the federal government to take steps to curb the spread of baseless rumours online and offline. According to sources, Karnataka police on Sunday arrested 28 people who have been part of the lynch mob and detained 32 others.
City-based techie Mohammad Azam, who worked for Google, was lynched by means of a mob at Murki village in Karnataka on July 14 following a series of messages shared on WhatsApp warning locals that child kidnappers have been at the loose. Azam had stopped by means of to casually distribute candies to a couple youngsters.
The father of the deceased, Mohammed Osman, a railway worker, is totally distraught after his son's demise. "I demand strong punishment to the accused persons so that a message is sent to people who fall prey to such rumours. My son had begged the assailants to spare him and had even tried to reason with them, but the people had a pre-mediated design to kill," stated the daddy amid inconsolable sobs.
"My brother was an IT engineer working with Google. His appearance never looked like a child lifter, but he fell victim to rumour mongers," stated Mohammed Akram, Azam's brother.
Azam, who were given married a couple of years in the past, has a minor son who is now beneath the care of his uncle. On Saturday evening, Azam's frame was laid to leisure on the Shaheen Nagar graveyard near Pahadi Shareef Dargah.
Azam's killing is the newest in a line of lynchings across India, with people both beaten up or killed on suspicion of being child abductors. This has prompted the federal government to ask social media operators such as WhatsApp to clamp down on rumours.
The three other survivors within the incident, Noor Mohd, Mohd Salman and Mohd Salham-eid-al-Kubaisi, a Qatari nationwide, are undergoing remedy after being grievously injured within the mob assault. Salham, a police reliable in Qatar, was in Hyderabad on a vacation. He came to Azam's area on Friday and the duo, in conjunction with Mohammad Salman and Noor Mohammad, went to Handikera near Bidar to satisfy a chum.
On the as far back as Hyderabad, the four stopped for refreshments at a shop near Balkut Tanda. On seeing some schoolchildren, Salham offered them candies that he had introduced from Qatar. But villagers mistook them for abductors.
City-based techie Mohammad Azam, who worked for Google, was lynched by means of a mob at Murki village in Karnataka on July 14 following a series of messages shared on WhatsApp warning locals that child kidnappers have been at the loose. Azam had stopped by means of to casually distribute candies to a couple youngsters.
The father of the deceased, Mohammed Osman, a railway worker, is totally distraught after his son's demise. "I demand strong punishment to the accused persons so that a message is sent to people who fall prey to such rumours. My son had begged the assailants to spare him and had even tried to reason with them, but the people had a pre-mediated design to kill," stated the daddy amid inconsolable sobs.
"My brother was an IT engineer working with Google. His appearance never looked like a child lifter, but he fell victim to rumour mongers," stated Mohammed Akram, Azam's brother.
Azam, who were given married a couple of years in the past, has a minor son who is now beneath the care of his uncle. On Saturday evening, Azam's frame was laid to leisure on the Shaheen Nagar graveyard near Pahadi Shareef Dargah.
Azam's killing is the newest in a line of lynchings across India, with people both beaten up or killed on suspicion of being child abductors. This has prompted the federal government to ask social media operators such as WhatsApp to clamp down on rumours.
The three other survivors within the incident, Noor Mohd, Mohd Salman and Mohd Salham-eid-al-Kubaisi, a Qatari nationwide, are undergoing remedy after being grievously injured within the mob assault. Salham, a police reliable in Qatar, was in Hyderabad on a vacation. He came to Azam's area on Friday and the duo, in conjunction with Mohammad Salman and Noor Mohammad, went to Handikera near Bidar to satisfy a chum.
On the as far back as Hyderabad, the four stopped for refreshments at a shop near Balkut Tanda. On seeing some schoolchildren, Salham offered them candies that he had introduced from Qatar. But villagers mistook them for abductors.
'My son begged, but mob was out to kill'
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