Hapur lynching: SC issues notice to UP govt, orders Meerut IG to submit report

Qasim (45) was beaten to death by a mob at a sugarcane field in Hapur’s Pilakhuwa and 65-year-old Samiuddin was injured in the incident. Police had arrested two men — Yudhishtir Singh and Rakesh Sisodia — on charges of murder. According to the FIR filed at the Pilakhuwa police station, the incident was the result of a scuffle between unidentified bike-borne men and the two victims. But the family of Samiuddin and the two men arrested insisted that it was related to “cattle”.

Days after the incident, a photograph of him being dragged with three policemen in the frame went viral causing a stir in the UP Police. The UP DGP in a statement said, “We apologise for the insensitive manner in which the victim was handled by our policemen. All the three policemen seen in the picture have been transferred to police lines and an enquiry has been ordered in the incident..”