Waqf Board offers job, Rs 5L to widow of lynching victim

NEW DELHI: Delhi Waqf Board chairman and AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan has announced to give a job and even pay Rs 5 lakh to the wife of Tabrez Ansari who was tied to a pole and later lynched by a mob in Jharkhand over suspicion of theft and was even forced to chant Jai shri Ram and Jai Hanuman by the mob which can be seen in the video.

Mr Khan said that they will help Ansari’s wife get legal aid. “We are trying to send a cheque of Rs 5 lakh to Tabrez’s wife. I may also go there to handover the cheque to her. We will also give her a job at the waqf board and provide her legal help,” Khan. Five people have been arrested in connection with the case.

Ansari was allegedly tied to a pole and thrashed with sticks by a mob in Jharkhand’s Seraikela-Kharsawan district last Wednesday. After beating him mercilessly for about 18 hours, the villagers handed Ansari over to police. He had been in the judicial custody since June 18 and was taken to the Sadar Hospital on June 22 after his condition deteriorated.

At the Sadar Hospital, he was diagnosed with multiple injuries and subsequently referred to the Tata Main Hospital in Jamshedpur, where he was declared “brought dead” by doctors.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday had said lynching of Ansari in Jharkhand, pained him and the guilty must be severely punished, but stressed that all incidents of violence in the country, whether in Jharkhand, West Bengal or Kerala, should be treated the same and law should take its course.