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A Muslim youth who worked in a Calcutta restaurant was killed and his two companions seriously injured when a mob branded them thieves and attacked them in Bihar’s Gaya in the early hours of Thursday.
The limbs of the slain Muhammad Babar, 28, who was to be married in two months, “had been twisted like crushed sugarcane and his neck seemed to have been pierced with a rod or stake”, his elder brother Saddam Hussain said.
Babar had said before his death that the three youths were travelling in an SUV and had stopped at a small bridge near Diha village to prepare khaini (tobacco for chewing), a police officer said.
It was then that they were attacked, the police officer said on the condition of anonymity. He said the injured — Muhammad Sajid and Muhammad Rukmuddin — had corroborated this. “The villagers accused them of being thieves and beat them brutally,” the officer said.
Babar, a biryani cook in Calcutta, had returned home to Karisarai village, around 6km from Diha, to get the house painted and attend to other wedding preparations, the elder brother said.
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