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He just got married two months ago. His wife is few weeks pregnant.
Twenty-three year-old Salman Vohra had only gone to watch a cricket tournament match in Chikhodra, Gujarat on 22 June. He ended up being mercilessly beaten to death.
What happened in the case?
Speaking to The Quint, his uncle Noman Anwar Vohra said:
"He had just gone to watch the final cricket match. No one would have thought this will happen. He just got married two months ago; his wife Mashira is also a month-pregnant."
Salman was a resident of Polson compound in Gujarat's Anand and worked in the garment business.
Locals say that tensions had begun even before the match because Muslim players were doing very well in the tournament and this didn't go down well with a section of pro-Hindutva locals.
According to activist Aasim Khedawala, many of the players who did well in quarter finals and semi-finals were Muslims. Apparently even in the final, one team mostly comprised of Muslims and the other team also had 2-3 Muslims.
The organisers had warned that a there could be a communal confrontation because of this and many of the Muslim players also said that they didn't feel safe.
The crowd swelled up to around 5,000 people, out of which Muslims were not more than about 500 say some of those present.
The violence started with a parking dispute. A group of men, one of them being drunk, allegedly came in their motorcycles and got into a fight with Salman, telling him to move his bike from the stand.
They kept saying, "Vohra, do what we're telling you to do."
A few moments later, they returned with 4-5 more men. The one who was drunk mistook another Muslim man, Suhail to be Salman and began attacking him.
In order to save Suhail from these men, Salman jumped in and the mob surrounded him.
'ONE EAR WAS ALMOST BITTEN OFF'
This is when the men started mercilessly beating Salman. The crowd present looked on and some of them even cheered the attackers. In a video accessed by The Quint, some men in the crowd shouted, "maaro! maaro!" (Hit him! Hit him!).
The men finally stopped hitting Salman when they assumed there was no energy or will left in him.
A few onlookers picked him up, made him drink water and also called for the ambulance. The ambulance took him to a nearby hospital but on reaching there, they were told to go to a bigger private hospital. But the moment they reached the second hospital and spoke to the doctor, Salman succumbed to his injuries.
I saw his body. He had marks on his right hand, cuts below his eyes, his ear was brutally damaged. In fact, they (the attackers) almost bit his ear off. The knife cut damaged his kidney, which was the biggest wound. He was also beaten on his lower waist and neck so these areas of his body bled a lot.
Noman Vohra, Salman's Uncle to The Quint
"The fact that the men could easily bring in knives on the cricket ground premises suggests that it was intentional and planned hence, 120 B section is important to be included," remarked Aasim.
Congress leaders Imran Khedawala and Gyasuddin Shaikh are also pushing for strong action against the accused.
Meanwhile, Noman Vohra stated that Salman's parents, siblings and wife are all in utter shock.
"People are coming to visit so the wound is being opened again and again. His wife is not able to speak right now," he said, adding "he was a simple and religious person".
Nonetheless, Noman said that the police have been cooperative so far and will "hopefully help get justice in the case."
Gujarat: Muslim Man 'Hit With Bats, Knives' At Cricket Match, Dies in Hospital
"He had just gone to watch the final cricket match. He just got married two months ago; his wife Mashira is also pregnant," said Salman's uncle. In Gujarat, some men, cheered on by a mob brutally beat Salman Vohra and he died shortly after.
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Source:
The Quint
The Quint
