New Delhi: Four more accused were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly lynching 16-year-old Hafiz Junaid inside a Mathura-bound train. Junaid was stabbed to death while his brothers Hashim and Sakir and friend Mohsin were injured by a mob, which also allegedly hurled anti-Muslim slurs against them on-board the Delhi-Mathura passenger train between Ballabgarh and Mathura stations on Thursday night.
Media reports said that all four men belong to a village near Hodal. They are all believed to be regular commuters who used to take the EMU train to New Delhi from the Haryana town, added the reports.
Ramesh, 35, was the first accused to be arrested from his native place Palwal in Haryana late on Friday night for Junaid’s murder. He was later sent in three-day police custody by a local court.
In his police complaint, Hasib said at least 15-20 persons boarded the train at Okhla railway station and asked them to vacate seats for them.
All four were thrashed all the way from Tughlakabad to the Ballabhgarh railway station and were attacked with sharp-edged weapons and later thrown out of the train at Asaoti railway station in Palwal district.
Junaid succumbed to his injuries on Thursday night in a hospital. The other three were injured, two of them critically, and are under treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Trauma Centre in Delhi.
