Maharashtra: 21-year-old Muslim student lynched in Jamner, family members assaulted
Jamner: Suleman Rahim Khan, a 21-year-old farmer’s son from Chhoti Betawad in Jamner taluka, was brutally beaten to death by a mob of 9–15 men and left outside his home on Sunday. His parents and sister were also attacked while trying to save him.
According to witnesses, the assailants first confronted Suleman, allegedly while he was with a 17-year-old girl, at a café near the local police station. He was forcibly taken in a vehicle, assaulted at multiple locations, and brought back to his village for the final attack. Instead of being taken to hospital, his body was allegedly dumped at his doorstep.
Suleman, who had recently completed Class 12 and was preparing for police recruitment, had travelled to Jamner earlier that day to submit his application. He sustained fatal internal injuries from sticks, iron rods, and punches. Doctors at Jalgaon District Hospital declared him dead on arrival.
His father, Rahim Khan, alleged that there was “not a single inch” of his son’s body without wounds. “I will not rest until the culprits face the harshest punishment,” he said. The family has demanded that the accused be booked under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
The killing has triggered tension in Jamner, with community leaders comparing it to the Beed lynching case earlier this year. AIMIM leader Imtiaz Jaleel condemned it as “another case of mob lynching” and accused police of rushing the family into last rites before all suspects were caught.
Residents staged a sit-in outside Jamner police station on Monday evening. Superintendent of Police Maheshwar Reddy said four suspects have been arrested, and five more are being traced. The FIR includes charges of murder, kidnapping, rioting, and unlawful assembly under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Police said the motive may be linked to an inter-community relationship, but investigations are ongoing. Additional forces have been deployed to maintain law and order. The case is now being seen as a key test of the state government’s response to rising mob violence.
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'Rear-guard action': BJP over Mamata accepting sports minister's resignation after Messi event
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Tuesday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accepting Aroop Biswas' resignation as the state sports minister is nothing but a "rear-guard action" to douse public anger over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event last week.
BJP co-in-charge for West Bengal Amit Malviya alleged that this is also an "open confession" that the Messi event fiasco was not accidental but a government-manufactured disaster, borne out of the poor governance of Banerjee, her ministers and the state bureaucracy.
Banerjee on Tuesday accepted Biswas' resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Messi's event last week, a senior leader of the ruling TMC said.
Biswas, who had written to the chief minister seeking to be relieved of his responsibilities as sports minister, will continue as a cabinet minister, retaining charge of the power department.
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Reacting to the development, Malviya said in a post on X, "TMC Sports Minister Aroop Biswas resigns after the Messi fiasco and Mamata Banerjee accepts it in record time."
"Do not mistake this for accountability; this is nothing but a rear-guard action to douse public anger. anger! This is not 'Raj Dharma'," he added.
The BJP leader alleged that the incident was the outcome of "loot" of common people which is "so synonymous" with the TMC.
The incident was also the outcome of the "shameless VIP culture that TMC thrives on and deep-rooted cronyism promoted by Banerjee," he charged.
Malviya further alleged that Biswas' resignation exposes a "collective failure of Mamata Banerjee, her partisan bureaucracy, and her crony cabinet".
"This is a symbolic sacrifice, a political hoax, soon to be buried under layers of bureaucracy, with no justice, no accountability, and no remorse," the BJP leader said, adding, "No resignation will bring back the time lost, the money wasted, or the stolen chance for football lovers to witness Messi in Kolkata."
