“We went to his place and asked about Ankit,” he said in the Express report. "They are not reacting promptly to our complaints... Women are being harassed, yet there's no action," she added. On March 5, TOI claimed that Sharma’s body had “at least 54 deep stab wounds”. “They started throwing stones and bricks at residents, who rushed to Ankit to help them...Later, his body was found in a ditch,” Ankur told WSJ. “The man who owns this building is a Hindu, but the shop is run by a Muslim man called Irshad.

Pappu Coolerwala’s shop was not just looted, but his coolers were thrown on the Karawal Nagar road. + This is a video shared by a local resident. But seems he was quite right, and residents grant this.#DelhiViolence pic.twitter.com/dBLwj7FqPZ. Interestingly, the News18 report said “locals claimed Ankit Sharma could have died in stone-pelting”. A Times of India report on March 5, based on “multiple sources”, tells us that eyewitnesses have told police that Sharma “tripped over a stone and fell". “I had locked my family [in my house] that day and I later sent them away from here.”. The stone-pelting from other terraces also did not appear in Pandita’s video. The high court also called Ankit Sharma's death as "unfortunate". It shows the two mobs going at each other from the terraces and the streets. The BJP IT cell latched on to the video and created a circulation stampede online — reducing the nightmarish clash to the actions of a Muslim mob from Hussain’s house. News18 quoted Ankit’s father as saying that those who went to rescue his son “were fired upon and attacked with petrol bombs” and acid. Sharma was at the front.”. This was the day when the looting and arson of shops and homes began. Most media houses (except Scroll) did not lay out the context of Ankit’s murder: what was going on in Khajuri Khas when Ankit was nabbed and where the two mobs — yes, there were two mobs — were positioned during the clash. One death received a larger slice of media focus: that of 26-year-old Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma, whose body was retrieved from a drain near Delhi’s Chand Bagh on February 26. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal reacted to the killing in a tweet this afternoon. He is a very good man. In the video, Mr Hussain explains that a mob broke into his house and climbed to the roof to carry out attacks. Gali Number 5, Moonga Nagar, opposite Tahir Hussain’s house. Controversy has erupted over the alleged role of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Tahir Hussain in the death of Ankit Sharma, the Intelligence Bureau … (Photo| Shekhar Yadav, EPS). He says he "repeatedly called for the police" who arrived "some hours later" and, after the protesters were cleared, requested them to guard his home to ensure this did not happen again. Both were torched by the Muslim mob last week. A report in The Print claimed, based on testimony from Ankit’s mother, that Ankit had gone outside to “look for his brother Ankur who he feared may have got stuck in the riot” — although Ankur told Hindustan Times that Ankit went outside to “see what was happening in the locality”.

“I lost Rs 15 lakh worth of property. These show a man believed to be Mr Hussain, who is a Municipal Councilor, on the roof along with some other men; these men appear to be involved in stone-throwing. We were afraid that it would be torched but our neighbours, who have known us for years, intervened,” said Sanjeev Jain, who owns Jain Garments in Chand Bagh. When IANS accessed the post-mortem report, it reported that Ankit’s body has “multiple abrasion...deep cuts...by sharp edge objects,” adding that the “26-year-old was stabbed multiple times”. I asked for help from the police and they reached a few hours later and then the situation was brought under control.". NEW DELHI: With fingers being pointed at him over the death of Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma whose battered body was recovered on Wednesday, Aam … Then, they pelted stones and petrol bombs at each other. The mob here is a Hindu mob, chanting Jai Shri Ram. IB employee Ankit Sharma, whose body was recovered on Wednesday from a sewer in Jaffrabad, even as riot-hit parts of northeast Delhi were slowly limping back to normalcy. Reports on the IB staffer’s gruesome killing couldn't agree on the basic facts and omitted some crucial context. One death received a larger slice of media focus: that of 26-year-old Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma, whose body was retrieved from a drain near Delhi’s Chand Bagh on February 26. NSA Ajit Doval, who has been tasked with restoring order in violence-hit areas, made a second visit to affected regions this evening, offering a personal guarantee to residents. In the videos, massive plumes of smoke seem to be billowing up directly from below the same building, suggesting Mr Hussain's house too may have been under attack. Hindustan Times reported that “protesters caught” friends “who went to save Ankit,” implying that these friends were not by Ankit’s side when he was attacked, but were nabbed later. These are important details that almost all reports glossed over. When Sharma's brother stated this simple fact to WSJ, it caused a furore. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The New Indian Express’s report brought the number of stab wounds down to “over 250 times”, while The Times of India reported “over 200 injuries, including deep stab wounds”. All this happened here too, and we responded fast and called up the police. I am very distressed by what has happened and want you to know that I am a peaceful Indian Muslim and will always work for the country and Hindu Muslim relations. Prasar Bharati tweeted that Ankur told Prasar Bharati News Service that he “never gave such a statement” to WSJ and that it was a “ploy to defame my brother and my family”.

“My shop was wrecked by a Hindu mob of 70-80 men. One is a not-so-reliable broadcast wing of the Indian state, and the other an institution battling serious charges of apathy and collusion. I wish they had spared it,” said Rajesh Gupta, who owns the grocery store next door. To the right of the jamun tree, towards Chand Bagh, stood the Muslim mob.

The battle of stones and fire was not only fought on the streets, but on the terraces too. However, there were inconsistencies between media reports: the setting of the murder, the basics of what happened to Ankit, where he was nabbed, who he was with, the details of his post-mortem report. This was hardly the case on the other side. Unrelenting violence has consumed northeast Delhi since Sunday, as groups for and against the controversial citizenship law clash. On the Muslim side, a video shot outside Hussain’s house was posted on Facebook on February 29.