Among four who died of gunshot wounds in Sambhal, a dhaba worker, sweet shop owner

Identifying those who died successful Sunday’s unit arsenic Mohammad Ayan, 19, Mohd Kaif, 23, and Bilal Ansari, 22, too Ghazi, Sambhal Superintendent of Police Krishna Kumar Bishnoi said the 4 died of gunshot wounds, portion claiming that the bullets were not fired by his personnel. “We person made it wide clip and again that the constabulary did not occurrence astatine anyone. We utilized lone non-lethal weapons erstwhile the assemblage resorted to chromatic pelting. Our ain men person suffered injuries… each those who created hostility volition beryllium severely punished,” helium said. Bishnoi said a 5th person, Mohammad Roman Khan, too, died connected Sunday, but helium apt suffered a bosom attack.

A nonmigratory of Sambhal’s Fatal Sarai, his household says that helium had gone to the market, a fewer metres from home, to get sweetener supplies for the store erstwhile helium was shot.

At Ghazi’s home, his parent Idris, 55, woman Tehzeeb, 27, and his 4 children, each nether the property of 11, are inactive successful shock. The household denies helium was portion of the mob that pelted stones astatine the squad that was carrying retired the survey astatine the mosque. “Had I known helium would beryllium shot, I would person taken the bullet,” said Ghazi’s parent Idris. She alleged the constabulary didn’t instrumentality him to infirmary aft helium was shot.

Ghazi was buried astir 11.45 p.m. connected Sunday successful the beingness of the police.

Barely 500 metres away, neighbours crowded extracurricular the single-storeyed unplastered location of 19-year-old Mohammad Ayan, but his parent remained unaware of his decease the erstwhile morning. “They are telling maine my lad is sick. I made dalia for him past night, but helium is inactive not home. Why are truthful galore radical gathered here? Is helium that sick?,” asked Nafisa, Ayan’s 50-year-old mother.

Ayan, a Class 8 dropout, who worked astatine a dhaba successful Chaudhary Sarai country of Sambhal municipality for Rs 150 rupees a day, was the lone earning subordinate of his family. His begetter died 18 years ago.

Ayan’s elder sister Reshma says that astir 2 hours earlier his death, helium had picked her up from her location adjacent the masjid and brought her to his location successful Kot Garbi to beryllium with their mother.

“We reached location astir 10 americium and helium near for the dhaba astir immediately,” she said.

Policemen connected defender adjacent Shahi Jama Masjid successful UP’s Sambhal pursuing the clashes connected Sunday. (Express photograph by Gajendra Yadav)

Nearly 5 km from the mosque successful Kot West is wherever 22-year-old Bilal Ansari lived with his parents, 4 brothers and 2 sisters. Bilal, who ran a handloom shop, is among the dead. On Saturday night, his household said, helium received a consignment from Delhi.

“The adjacent morning, Sunday, helium thought helium would instrumentality the caller apparel to the store and put them. He did not adjacent cognize that determination was a survey going connected successful the mosque. At 11 am, a neighbour called america to accidental that a antheral who resembles my member had been changeable successful the backmost and was bleeding. I rushed there,” said Bilal’s younger member Ali. He says they archetypal took Bilal to Hasin Begum Hospital successful Chandausi, but the doc determination refused to dainty him. “We past took him to the Moradabad District Hospital, but helium was dormant by then,” Ali said.

His mother, Sahana Begum, 50, alleges helium was killed by the police. “The constabulary killed my son. We volition registry an FIR against them,” she said. His father, Anwar Ansari, 60, said, “The constabulary are saying that we fought among each different and changeable astatine people. It is simply a lie. My lad was changeable successful the back. He was killed.”

Also among the dormant was Mohammad Kaif, a nonmigratory of Sambhal’s Tutipur Elha. Kaif, who was being treated for slug injuries astatine the Moradabad territory hospital, died Monday evening.

On Monday, a time aft the violence, the country surrounding the Shahi Jama Masjid remained deserted. In the marketplace to the near of the masjid, astir 30 shops remained shut. Most houses stayed locked arsenic well. “There is nary 1 to bargain anything. Who bash we unfastened the shops for,” said Mohammad Shamim Ansari, 45, a nonmigratory of Kot West.