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The nationality of Syed Farid Khan, the man lynched by a mob of thousands in Nagaland, is now beyond doubt.
Farid Khan, also known as Sarif Uddin, was from Bosla village in Karimganj district in southern Assam.
“The Khans have been there for generations, like many Bengali-speaking Muslims in the Barak Valley [of south Assam],” Sanjib Gohain Baruah, the deputy commissioner of Karimganj, told the Hindustan Times.
Apart from being arrested on a charge of rape, Khan was accused of being an “IBI,” an abbreviation commonly used in Nagaland for “illegal Bangladeshi immigrant.”
A number of questions have been raised over the events leading to the lynching.
These include questions over the unavailability of a medical report to confirm the rape of the Naga woman, for which Syed Sarif Uddin Khan had been charged, according to an NDTV report.
Questions remain as to why Nagaland policemen claimed Farid Khan was an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant.
Farid’s deceased father, Sirajuddin Khan, served in the Indian Army’s Military Engineering Service for more than 20 years.
His two elder brothers – Kamaluddin and Jamaluddin – too are soldiers in the army. Another brother, Imanuddin, died of wounds sustained while fighting in the Kargil War of 1999, the Hindustan Times reported.
Farid’s younger brother Suberuddin, who runs a business in Dimapur, said his sibling was framed for not paying two
hundred thousand Indian Rupees that had been demanded by a local woman and her friends. Demands for “donations” – a euphemism for extortion – from traders, particularly non-locals, are commonplace in Dimapur, according to a Hindustan Times report.
“There are multiple members of our family serving in the army. How could they have killed him claiming he was Bangladeshi? My brother was made a scapegoat,” the victim’s brother Jamaluddin Khan told NDTV.
Sarif Uddin had been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in Dimapur on February 24 and remanded to judicial custody in the Dimapur Central Jail the next day.
On March 5, a mob broke into the jail, dragged him out, stripped him naked, beat him up, pelted him with stones and dragged him towards the centre of Dimapur town, seven kilometres away.
He died from his injuries along the way after which the mob dragged his body to a clock tower and displayed it.
Three officials have been suspended by the Nagaland government.
Nagaland mob victim identified as Indian | Dhaka Tribune
Farid Khan, also known as Sarif Uddin, was from Bosla village in Karimganj district in southern Assam.
“The Khans have been there for generations, like many Bengali-speaking Muslims in the Barak Valley [of south Assam],” Sanjib Gohain Baruah, the deputy commissioner of Karimganj, told the Hindustan Times.
Apart from being arrested on a charge of rape, Khan was accused of being an “IBI,” an abbreviation commonly used in Nagaland for “illegal Bangladeshi immigrant.”
A number of questions have been raised over the events leading to the lynching.
These include questions over the unavailability of a medical report to confirm the rape of the Naga woman, for which Syed Sarif Uddin Khan had been charged, according to an NDTV report.
Questions remain as to why Nagaland policemen claimed Farid Khan was an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant.
Farid’s deceased father, Sirajuddin Khan, served in the Indian Army’s Military Engineering Service for more than 20 years.
His two elder brothers – Kamaluddin and Jamaluddin – too are soldiers in the army. Another brother, Imanuddin, died of wounds sustained while fighting in the Kargil War of 1999, the Hindustan Times reported.
Farid’s younger brother Suberuddin, who runs a business in Dimapur, said his sibling was framed for not paying two
hundred thousand Indian Rupees that had been demanded by a local woman and her friends. Demands for “donations” – a euphemism for extortion – from traders, particularly non-locals, are commonplace in Dimapur, according to a Hindustan Times report.
“There are multiple members of our family serving in the army. How could they have killed him claiming he was Bangladeshi? My brother was made a scapegoat,” the victim’s brother Jamaluddin Khan told NDTV.
Sarif Uddin had been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in Dimapur on February 24 and remanded to judicial custody in the Dimapur Central Jail the next day.
On March 5, a mob broke into the jail, dragged him out, stripped him naked, beat him up, pelted him with stones and dragged him towards the centre of Dimapur town, seven kilometres away.
He died from his injuries along the way after which the mob dragged his body to a clock tower and displayed it.
Three officials have been suspended by the Nagaland government.
Nagaland mob victim identified as Indian | Dhaka Tribune
