'Dadri lynching was not spontaneous'

October 21, 2015 08:02

The mob murder of a man in Dadri was "not a spontaneous act" but involved "some planning", a member of the National Commission for Minorities, which visited the spot as part of a fact-finding mission said. The NCM member, Farida Abdullah Khan, also said that "citizenship rights of Muslims are being denied and challenged".

"Everyone, including the family which came under attack, was fast asleep. And very suddenly enough people gathered to attack," she said. "They could not have gathered in five minutes there has to be some planning. It was not a spontaneous act," she added.

The commission is set to meet today to finalise the report on the killing of Mohammed Ikhlaq in Bisara village in Dadri last month.

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