Police has filed a supplementary chargesheet, adding Section 302 of IPC against 11 accused for the murder of Tabrez Ansari.
A week after murder charge against suspects in the lynching of Tabrez Ansari was dropped, Jharkhand police on Wednesday said it has filed a supplementary chargesheet, adding Section 302 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) against 11 accused for the murder of 24-year-old.
Section 302 of the IPC carries the punishment for murder, which is death or life imprisonment, along with being liable to a fine.
The incident took place on June 18, when Ansari was beaten up by a mob while being forced to chant "Jai Shri Ram" over the suspicion that he had stolen a bike, in Dhatkidh village of Seraikela district.
The Jharkhand police had last week dropped the murder charge against 11 suspects in the case, claiming that the final postmortem report attributes his death to cardiac arrest.
However, the police added murder charge against the accused and filed a supplementary chargesheet on Wednesday. In a statement, the state police said the earlier postmortem report did not make the cause of cardiac arrest clear.
The police took a second opinion of specialist doctors who in their report said, "On the basis of main findings, we opined that (1) The fracture of bone is grievous injury caused by hard & blunt object. (2). The combined effect of fracture of bone, pale organs and heart chambers full of blood resulting into cardiac arrest."
The police added that it also received a report about the "integrity" of the viral video showing the mob assault on Ansari.
The lynching of Ansari last year sparked an uproar after a video of the episode went viral. The mob handed him over to the police, who took him to a police post, instead of a hospital. Ansari succumbed to his injuries.
After the murder charges were dropped against the accused, Ansari's wife Shahista Parveen, demanding a CBI inquiry, had threatened to commit suicide.
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