Facing flack for failing to arrest the accused involved in stabbing the 16-year-old Junaid Khan on a train last week, police on Tuesday shown CCTV footage of three men riding a bike to the family who believes they were among the attackers.
With just a single arrest in this case till now, police is yet to identify the others who were part of the mob who accused him and his three companions of carrying beef in their bags on June 22 while they were on their way to village in Ballabhgarh after shopping for Eid in Delhi.
Junaid, his brother Haseeb and their two cousins were slashed with knives before the teen was thrown off the train at a station at Asauti, just 30 kilometres from Delhi.
The sarpanch or chief of the village council of Asauti gave the police footage of three men on a bike, one of them with a bloodied bandage on his head.
The video from security cameras at a community centre, near the Asauti railway station, was shown to Junaid's brother who says that based on the bikers' clothes (their faces are fuzzy), he believes they were among the attackers.
Demonstrations had been planned for Wednesday in different cities by citizens to protest the lengthening list of mob attacks against people accused of killing cows or eating beef. On Monday, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad described Junaid Khan's murder as "painful and shameful" and said the government will not tolerate such attacks. Ramesh, who uses only one name, told the police after his arrest on Saturday that he was drunk when he attacked the young Muslims and that the group of passengers incited him by declaring them "beef-eaters".
He was arrested by the police after he was found inebriated near the station where Junaid was thrown off the train. Though the train that was travelling from Delhi to Mathura was packed when the violence erupted, not one witness has been located by the police.
Junaid and others were attacked when a group of men accused them of having beef in their bags.
Haseeb, in his police complaint, said religious slurs were yelled at them, his skull cap was pulled off his head and his beard was pulled.