Pune: 17-year-old ragpicker, Hindu was allegedly murdered by three people at Pune. The father of teenager and few right-wing activists claimed that, he was killed because he was a Hindu and brutality meted out to him was like an act of IS.
However, police have denied any communal angle behind the murder of Sawan Rathod in Kasba Peth area of the city last week.
Sawan, a pavement dweller, was hospitalised last Wednesday after he sustained severe burns when the three accused suspected his involvement in stealing vehicle batteries, poured petrol on him and set him ablaze on January 13.He died in hospital on January 15.
“When my son was admitted to hospital, he told me that he was set on fire by three suspects after they came to know that he was Hindu,” Sawan’s father Dharma claimed.
