Last week, several notorious Islamists and Muslim ‘journalists’ claimed that a Maulana in the Koderma district of Jharkhand was lynched by a Hindu mob as a retaliation for hitting a woman on the road. The deceased Shahabuddin was an Imam at Basramo Turkabad in the Barkatha area. Now it has been confirmed by the police investigation and the post-mortem report that Shahabuddin died due to a road accident, and there was no mob attack involved.
A report published in The Observer Post claimed that Shahabuddin was beaten to death by a mob on 30th June when he was returning to his house on his bike near Ghuthari Kariya. The report claimed that Shahabuddin was attacked after his bike hit an auto in which a woman named Anita Devi was seated along with her husband and brother-in-law.
The report by Meer Faisal claimed that after the incident in which the woman was injured, her husband and brother-in-law gathered some residents and boys playing cricket nearby, who then assaulted the Imam with sticks and batons. It was soon claimed on social media that a Hindu mob lynched the Maulana due to his Muslim identity.
However, the Jharkhand Police had denied the claims, saying that the Maulana died due to a road accident. The police confirmed that the Maulana, who was rushed to the hospital after the accident, succumbed to his injuries on the way.
“The Imam received injuries due to the accident. There is no communal angle here. He was transported to the hospital in a police vehicle but succumbed to his injuries on the way. His body has been sent for a postmortem,” the police said.
Now the postmortem report has confirmed the police version, that Shahabuddin was injured in a road accident, and he was not assaulted by any mob. Hazaribagh DC Nancy Sahay and SP Arvind Kumar Singh revealed the details of the report in a joint press conference on Wednesday.
They said that after the police investigation and post-mortem report, it became clear that Shahabuddin died in a road accident. DC Nancy Sahay said that on June 30, Sahabuddin was going from Basramon village of Barkattha to his home in Raghuniadih village of Koderma on his motorcycle. During this journey, he lost balance of the two-wheeler near Chutharikatiya road of Barkattha police station area at around 08:10 am.
Sahabuddin fell down and was severely injured, including suffering serious head injury. A woman named Anita Devi was also injured in this accident. He was taken to Barkattha Community Health Center for treatment by the police, but the doctors declared Sahabuddin dead.
The police wanted to take the woman also to the hospital for treatment, but she declined saying her injuries were minor and she will get treatment at home.
Notably, after the incident, the wife of deceased Sahabuddin had filed a complaint with the police claiming that there are video footage of the ‘mob attack’. But after police investigated the case, they didn’t receive any evidence to support the allegations.
Both the police investigation and the postmortem report have confirmed that Sahabuddin died due to road accident, and there is no evidence that he was lynched, the police said.
Notably, Meer Faisal who wrote the fake report is a known fake news peddler and he was quoted by ISIS in its magazine. In July 2023, ISIS had used several tweets posted by Faisal in its magazine Voice of Khurasan. For a long time, Meer Faisal has been spreading the propaganda of alleged attacks on Muslims by Hindus.
