By Nikita Jain
With the number of Hindutva mob lynching cases against Muslims increasing every day in India, the lack of legal help and prolonged court cases have left families exhausted and hopeless.
From accusations of eating or importing beef to merely walking down the street, Hindutva mobs target Muslims, leading to a rise in such attacks. However, the governments have no official data on these cases.
In the end, it is the families of victims who are left to bear the desolate gap caused by such massive loss.
For 30-year-old Shahrukh Tyagi, life has taken a complete turn. Once ambitious, with many opportunities in hand, Tyagi was forced to start his life afresh.
It has been almost three years since Tyagi lost his father, Dawood Tyagi, to the Hindu mob lynching.
On 2 September 2022, Dawood Tyagi, a resident of Vinaipur village in western Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district, was sitting outside his house with a few family members when about 20 men on motorcycles, carrying lathis (bamboo sticks) and kattas (country-made handguns), entered the area.
The Hindu mob identified Tyagi and his group as a target and charged toward them. While the others fled, Tyagi was slow to react, and the mob attacked him with sticks, beating him severely. A wheat farmer, Dawood Tyagi sustained injuries to the head and had blunt force trauma marks on his chest, legs, face, and head from the lathis. He succumbed to these injuries.
This story was originally published in maktoobmedia.com. Read the full story here.
