The wife a witness who 'saw Alimuddin Ansari being lynched' in Jharkhand in June for carrying beef has been killed in an accident in Ramgarh on Thursday.
The Indian Express reports that the wife of Ansari’s brother was killed in an accident in which his son also suffered minor injuries.
Ansari had been killed by a mob in Ramgarh on June 29 for carrying beef. His vehicle was set on fire and eight Bajrang Dal members and BJP members were arrested in connection with the incident.
On Thursday, Ansari’s brother Jalil reportedly forgot his identity proof at home when he had come to depose before a court in Ramgarh. He is said to have asked his wife and Ansari’s son to go retrieve it.
The report says the duo’s bike was rammed into by an unidentified bike. Ansari’s wife has reportedly alleged that it was an attack orchestrated by the “opposite side.”
On June 29, hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned killing of people in the name of "Gau bhakti", a meat trader, identified later as Alimuddin Ansari, succumbed to his injuries after he was assaulted by at least 10 people who stopped his van allegedly carrying “cattle meat” in Ramgarh district near Ranchi. The police said the victim was from the Giddi area in Ramgarh.
Forensic tests had confirmed that the lynch victim at Ramgarh in Jharkhand was carrying beef, the sale of which is banned in the state, the police later sai.
To a query, the SP said Ansari himself had a criminal background. He was an accused in the killing of a child and a case of theft.
Meanwhile, the police have arrested two more persons in connection with Ansari's lynching, taking the total number of arrests in the case to 12.
Phone call records revealed that one of those arrested followed Ansari for about two hours on June 29, informed two other accused about the victim's location, before intercepting him at Bazaar Tand, said the SP.
The mob, which allegedly dragged Ansari out of his car and lynched him, also torched the vehicle.
The lynching came close on the heels of a mob attack against a person in Giridih district on the suspicion that he had slaughtered a cow.
With Agency Inputs
