After the group stopped attacking him, a few onlookers picked Salman up, made him drink water and also called for the ambulance. The ambulance took him to a nearby private hospital where he was declared dead. According to Anand Deputy Superintendent of Police JK Panchal, Salman was beaten with bamboo sticks, and bats and was stabbed with knives. The post-mortem report, as seen by Salman’s uncle Noman Vohra stated that the knife had entered the kidney, which was one of the main reasons behind his death, reported The Quint. “I saw his body. He had marks on his right hand, cuts below his eyes, his ear was brutally damaged. In fact, they (the attackers) almost bit his ear off. The knife cut damaged his kidney, which was the biggest wound. He was also beaten on his lower waist and neck so these areas of his body bled a lot,” The Quint reported Salman’s uncle as saying. Anand Rural Police registered an FIR in the matter which includes sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) such as 143 (Punishment for unlawful assembly) 147 (Punishment for rioting), 148 (Being armed with a deadly weapon) 302 (Murder) and 324 (Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapon) among others, including The Gujarat Police Act.Following an investigation, the police arrested eleven individuals and presented them in court, which granted them a seven-day remand for further investigation.The police will present the accused in court today again as the remand period has concluded. According to the Anand DSP, the names of the men arrested in the case are: ” Mehul alias Gheto Dineshbhai Parmar, Kiran alias Holo Mafatbhai Parmar, Mahendra alias Fulio Rameshbhai Vaghela, Akshay alias Bako Narsinghbhai Parmar, Ratilal Zenabhai Parmar, and Vijay Mangalbhai Parmar, all residents of Chikhodara, and Ketan Mahendrabhai Patel, a resident of Vaghasi.”The DSP told that four more arrests have been made in the incident. “We have arrested four more accused and will produce them all in court today for further remand…this is not a mob lynching incident,” he said. Several activists and politicians including the AIMIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi have condemned the incident. Pointing out it was an incident of mob lynching, Owaisi posted on social media, “Salman Vohra was brutally lynched as a crowd watched and cheered the murderers. Some members of the Kshatriya community are reportedly pressurizing the police to remove the name of Shakti Singh from the list of accused.”
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