The Bihar police have arrested eight people in connection with the alleged mob lynching of Mohammad Athar Hussain (40), a cloth vendor from Gagan Dewan locality in Nalanda district who died at Pawapuri Hospital in Nalanda on December 12, 2025.
Mr. Hussain was allegedly tortured and lynched over his religious identity on December 5, 2025, at Bhattapur village under Roh police station limits in Nawada district.
The police registered a case on December 6, 2025, based on a statement from Mr. Hussain’s wife Shabnam Parveen. The complainant named 10 people in the FIR and stated that they had lynched her husband on charge of theft.
According to the police, the case was registered under Sections 190, 191(2) and 191(3) (unlawful assembly and rioting), Sections 126(2), 115(2), 117 and 118 (grievous hurt and use of dangerous means), Sections 109 and 74 (abetment and common intention), and Sections 303(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), with murder charges added after Mr. Hussain succumbed to injuries.
‘Beaten up for hours’
