By Betwa Sharma
Delhi: “Has anyone been caught? I have heard something is happening,” Kismatun, a 66-year-old Muslim woman, said after returning from casting her vote in the Delhi election on 5 February.
Although she was not quite sure what the developments were, Kismatun said that five years after uniformed policemen brutalised her 23-year-old son in the middle of a communal riot in northeast Delhi in February 2020, things could finally be moving in the murder investigation.
Faizan and four other Muslims who were beaten were also forced to sing the national anthem while they lay on the side of the road near the Mohalla Clinic at the Karadam Puri bridge.
Instead of getting him medical aid, the police illegally detained him at the Jyoti Nagar police station. He died at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narain Hospital (LNJP) two days later.
Kismatun recalled that two weeks before he died, Faizan, a butcher, had gone to cast his vote in the Delhi election in February 2020.
“He voted first, and then there was a riot. It was only his second time voting,” said Kismatun. “His whole life was ahead of him. He would have probably been married and had a child by now.”
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