The family members of the 32-year-old man who was lynched in Karnataka’s Bidar has demanded a proper investigation in the matter. Mohammad Azam was a software engineer working for Google. “He (Azam) was a software engineer working with Google. He looked so sophisticated and polished in his behaviour. How can anybody suspect him to be a kidnapper of children? Definitely it would not have been the reason,” said Azam’s brother, Mohammad Akram to Hindustan Times. He urged the Telangana government to take up the issue with Karnataka for a proper probe.
“The guilty should be punished so that no other innocent loses his life in this manner,” said Akram. He called it a serious issue, as the people are getting lynched over a rumour which is getting spread through messaging app Whatsapp.
Azam funeral was held on Saturday, his friends Mohammed Salham-eid-al-Kubaisi, a Qatari national and Mohammed Salman were injured in the attack. The incident took place when Salham offered chocolates to some schoolchildren while they were returning to Hyderabad, some locals started to questioning them and the group suspected them a child abductor, but after the argument they left the place but their photographs were circulated via a WhatsApp group. A mob stopped them at Murki and attacked them. Azam was killed on the spot.
Akram said Salham, who works as a police official in Qatar and was in Hyderabad on a holiday, came to their house on Friday to meet Azam. “Both of them left the house around 11.30 am without telling anybody where they were going. It was only later in the evening, when we got a call from the police that they had gone to Bidar to meet Salham’s friend,” he said.