Alfiya, Mohammad Aqeel Qureshi’s five-year-old daughter, said she saw the police throw her father off the terrace from their house in Bulandshahr’s Morche Waali Gali. “One leg here, one leg there, and his head was here when he was thrown,” she told The Wire, showing this correspondent the spot where Qureshi had fallen.
The incident Alfiya is referring to took place on the intervening night of May 23 and 24, around 1 am. A meat seller, 42-year-old Qureshi, died on May 27 of injuries he had suffered that night. According to the police, a team had gone to arrest him in connection with several criminal charges including illegal slaughter.