Man beaten to death by police officials

2017-06-02

Main Information

  • Victim Names Zafar Hussain
  • Date of Incident 2017-06-02
  • Nature of Violence Religious Identity Based Violence
  • Causal factors Religious identity
  • Religion of Vicitim Muslims
  • Name of Perpetrator Nagar Parishad Commissioner: Ashok Jain, Municipal Employees: Kamal Harijan, Ritesh Harijan and Manish Harijan
  • State Rajasthan
  • City/District Pratapgarh, Rajasthan, Pratapgarh, Rajasthan
  • Party in Power BJP

Other Information

  • Location of Incident Pratapgarh, Rajasthan
  • Perpetrator Organization Police / Investigating agency
  • Place of incident N/A

Zafar Hussain, a 44 year old man, came across a few policemen trying to photograph women defecating in public. He tried to stop them, but the police started to physically assault him. They were so aggressive that he died during the beat down itself. Later the post mortem report revealed that hussain died due to heart attack, but people in the area believed hussain had a healthy body, so a heart attack is a very unlikely option for him to die.