Khandwa, April 11, 2023 (PPI-OT):A Muslim youth was lynched to death in Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The Muslim youth, Sheikh Firoz, was reportedly subjected to fatal physical assault on the bogus charge of stealing in Khandwa area of the state. Sheikh Firoz was found unconscious in a drainage channel. He was then transported to the district hospital for medical attention, but could not survive.

Anil Singh, the DSP Headquarters, confirmed that the victim had suffered numerous stab wounds and had bruises all over his body. Firoz’s relatives said that he was lynched to death by Chatter Patel, the former panchayat president of Surgaon Village in Khandwa, and his men. The relatives said that after the men discovered that Firoz belonged to the Muslim community, they brutally assaulted him until he became unconscious, and subsequently, they threw him into the drainage channel. Firoz’s mother declined to perform his funeral rites until his murders are arrested.

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