15/12/2025
Mohammad Athar Hussain, a cloth vendor who was robbed and assaulted by a mob that later cut his ears and fingertips off with a plier and branded him with a hot iron in Bihar’s Nawada district on December 5, succumbed to his injuries on the night of December 12, according to a news report by the Indian Express.
According to the police, eight people have been arrested and detained so far.
Assault in lieu of help
Fifty-year-old Hussain was returning to his home in Barui village in Nawada district on the night of December 5 when his bicycle – on which he sells his ware – needed urgent repairs. Being near Bhattapar village (which comes in the Roh police station limits), Hussain asked a group of people about a puncture repair shop nearby.
They asked his name and profession and then assaulted him, cut his ears, beat him with a heated rod, Hussain’s brother Mohammad Shakib Alam told Indian Express.
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