Tension In Haryana District After 27-Year-Old Kidnapped, Beaten To Death

The police have said Asif Hussain was attacked by some of people from his own village and that they had a long-running tiff.

Tension has reigned in Haryana's Nuh district since yesterday after a 27-year-old gym instructor's body was found hours after his abduction by people mostly from his own village. The police had to baton charge angry mobs and fire in the air to disperse them at a few places. Many of those who attended the victim's funeral today pelted stones at the police. Asif Hussain, a resident of Kheda Khalilpur in Nuh, was abducted yesterday while he was out with two cousins getting some medicines. They were first waylaid by a dozen people and beaten up. Mr Hussain was then taken away, leaving his battered cousins behind at the scene of abduction. The complainants alleged that their attackers shot Hussain and also used other weapons on him. His body was found only later. Nuh Superintendent of Police Narendra Singh said there was no "Hindu-Muslim angle" to the incident. The two groups allegedly had a tiff going which was often resolved by senior members of the village till then, he said. The key accused belong to Mr Hussain's village, Kheda Khalilpur, some of whom have been arrested while the rest are on the run, the police said.