While the now arrested miscreants were vandalising police vehicles, assaulting local people and damaging public property on 29th June, visuals have surfaced showing them holding years and apologizing in the police station.
OpIndia also reached out to Qadir's neighbour shopkeeper. On one hand, he denied knowing anything about the incident, on the other, he blamed the police. The shopkeeper claimed that Saurabh Deshwal died of a police bullet. He said, "Saurabh died of a police bullet. Were we sitting with bullets in our hands at night?"
The severed head of a cow was found outside the residence of a Hindu businessman named Gopal Agarwal. Similarly, the leg of the cow was discovered outside the house of another Hindu resident named Deepak Kapoor.
Hours after posters of one of the accused persons were allegedly removed by unknown persons, the police on Friday put up the posters of 74 suspects in the Sambhal violence
The victim has been missing since Thursday (30th January) night. The police constituted 2 teams to trace the woman after receiving a complaint about the same on the following day.
OpIndia spoke to complainant Aman Rastogi, who shared that on 25th January, he and his friends, including an ailing member, were invited by accused Baburam to a prayer meeting promising healing water. The gathering turned out to be a Christian event where attendees were pressured to remove tilaks and Hindu idols from their homes, with claims that Yeshu would solve their problems. Aman, an RSS member, and his friends filed a police complaint against the accused.