These are important details that almost all reports glossed over. When IANS accessed the post-mortem report, it reported that Ankit’s body has “multiple abrasion...deep cuts...by sharp edge objects,” adding that the “26-year-old was stabbed multiple times”. The spot in Chand Bagh where Ankit Sharma’s corpse was recovered on February 26. A bakery and an e-rickshaw shop owned by Hindus in Khajuri Khas. Pandita, who announced on Twitter that he spent the whole of February 26 on the ground, did not draw out this context in his report in Open magazine. Ankit lived in Gali Number 6 in Khajuri Khas’s E Block. To the right of the jamun tree, towards Chand Bagh, stood the Muslim mob. It shows the two mobs going at each other from the terraces and the streets. Praying that we recover from this tragedy soon n work together to undo damage done to people n communities," he wrote. Abstain from posting comments that are obscene, defamatory or inflammatory, and do not indulge in personal attacks.

“They [Muslims] feared that we might kill them, and we feared that they might kill us. गली न0 6 मूँगा नगर करावल नगर रोड दिल्ली। Tahir Hussain says a mob broke into his house and climbed to the roof to carry out attacks.

They destroyed everything. This witness alleged that Ankit disappeared while “walking past a Muslim area amid heavy stone-pelting”. (Photo| Shekhar Yadav, EPS). Residents of both localities told Newslaundry that stone-pelting began around 10 pm on February 23 and things calmed down around midnight.

I asked for help from the police and they reached a few hours later and then the situation was brought under control.". On the Muslim side, a video shot outside Hussain’s house was posted on Facebook on February 29. Ankit's father, Ravinder Sharma, who also works with the Intelligence Bureau, has accused supporters of an Aam Aadmi Party leader, Tahir Hussain, of attacking Ankit and killing him. The area to its left, leading to Karawal Nagar, was taken over by the Hindus.

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Here’s a rundown of some of them.

The Karawal Nagar road, which divides Khajuri Khas from Moonga Nagar, was the main site of violence between two mobs on February 23, 24 and 25. A furniture shop, an electronic store, and a medical shop owned by Muslims were also gutted. ................................ Advertisement ................................ "Don't Worry About Money, He Said": Family On Intel Employee's Killing. This does not automatically mean that Ankit was murdered by this mob, but the failure to bring out this context allowed a reductionist version of events to reach viewers. The report quoted Ankit’s sister who said the family was “told that Tahir and his men dragged my brother and two others to his office and killed him”.

Jain Garments in Chand Bagh that was saved by Muslims. Amid the unprecedented violence, over which the Delhi High Court today issued a sharp reprimand to Delhi Police, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first public statement, calling for "peace and brotherhood". There was some sort of a consensus between the Press Trust of India, Hindustan Times, The Hindu and Scroll, which claimed that Ankit had left home to check what was happening outside his locality that evening.

Controversy has erupted over the alleged role of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Tahir Hussain in the death of Ankit Sharma, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) employee who was found dead in one of the areas in northeast Delhi most affected by four days of violence over citizenship law protests, in which 32 people have been killed. The stone-pelting from other terraces also did not appear in Pandita’s video. The answer differs depending on who you talk to. “They started throwing stones and bricks at residents, who rushed to Ankit to help them...Later, his body was found in a ditch,” Ankur told WSJ.

“We went to his place and asked about Ankit,” he said in the Express report. It stands right beside Hussain's house. One can see mob on its rooftop throwing stones and petrol bombs all over pic.twitter.com/9uDBEZBXOn. A News18 report quoted the father as saying that Sharma was "coming back from duty” and “15-20 people came from Tahir's building and took him along with a few others”. He further alleged that his son had been shot after he was beaten; the body has been sent for an autopsy. The Print, which spoke to Ankit’s mother, did not report on others accompanying Ankit. So they fought a pitched battle on this road,” said the owner of Pal Communications, a shop right outside Ankit’s lane. This was the day when the looting and arson of shops and homes began. Ankit’s father told The Indian Express that his son left home to “buy groceries”. Both were torched by the Muslim mob last week. Disclaimer : We respect your thoughts and views! He’s now been booked on charges of arson and murder, but has denied any wrongdoing on his part. We sent WSJ a questionnaire.

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The newspaper had interviewed Ankur over the phone. What’s the evidence? Every Muslim establishment this reporter came across beyond the jamun tree was entirely wrecked by the Hindu mob. His remains were then thrown into the drain, mercilessly. The BJP IT cell latched on to the video and created a circulation stampede online — reducing the nightmarish clash to the actions of a Muslim mob from Hussain’s house.
“It was ransacked around 4 pm on February 24 when Gujjars and Bajrang Dal men from Karawal Nagar side came and targeted Muslim shops.”. Unrelenting violence has consumed northeast Delhi since Sunday, as groups for and against the controversial citizenship law clash. 20 people have already lost their lives.

NEW DELHI: With fingers being pointed at him over the death of Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma whose battered body was recovered on Wednesday, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Tahir Hussain has claimed his innocence in a video statement. In Gali Number 5 in Moonga Nagar, Muslims climbed over the rooftops of houses on one side of the street, and Hindus took charge on rooftops on the other side.

It should be mentioned that Prasar Bharati, and particularly PBNS is tightly controlled by the state. Ankit Sharma, a friendly, ambitious idealistic IB officer was brutally murdered with hundreds of stab wounds, torture marks and his intestines ripped apart. As proof of these allegations, videos have been shared with NDTV. While the country “I had locked my family [in my house] that day and I later sent them away from here.”. One death received a larger slice of media focus: that of 26-year-old Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma, whose body was retrieved from a drain near Delhi’s Chand Bagh on February 26. “The mobs did not attack the temple, but some of my possessions on the terrace perished,” he said. Delhi Police has filed 18 FIRs and arrested 106 people in connection with the violence, which they say is now under control. In the video released on Wednesday, Tahir Hussain claimed that he too was a victim of the violence that broke out in several parts of northeast Delhi. A mattress shop in Moonga Nagar, opposite Hussain’s house, was one of the many that was looted and burned. At least 27 people have died in the last three days, more than 200 have been injured amid violence since Sunday. This begs the question where “400 stab wounds” came from. I am very distressed by what has happened and want you to know that I am a peaceful Indian Muslim and will always work for the country and Hindu Muslim relations.
Royal Mattress, owned by a Muslim man, was burnt and looted in Moonga Nagar. Indian media has made Tahir Hussain the face of Delhi riots. The same happened here (at his residence) the day before yesterday," Mr Hussain said in a video posted on Twitter.

He told Newslaundry that his clothes and furniture caught fire during the terrace clashes. People in the neighbourhood have alleged that the AAP leader played an active role in the riots that engulfed the area since Sunday. The report doesn’t state if these rescuers were captured too. The TOI report on March 5 claims that Sharma was with a friend named Kalu and “ a few others”. The views expressed in comments published on newindianexpress.com are those of the comment writers alone. It is the stocking season before summer and I was going to open soon.". He would often tell me not to worry about medical expenses.". + This is a video shared by a local resident. "The first complaint was filed by Delhi Police this morning," his mother told NDTV, adding that the cops did not file a complaint last night when the family approached them. Speaking to NDTV, Ankit Sharma's neighbours also alleged that stones and petrol bombs had been thrown from the roof of the five-storey building owned by Mr Hussain. A video from last week. Tahir Hussain’s terrace was not the only one with a mob that day, though locals said it definitely had more miscreants than any other house in the area — and not just on the terrace, but also inside his house. The report did not mention the number of times the IB staffer was stabbed.