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New Delhi: Two weeks after a 24-year-old Muslim man was brutally thrashed, allegedly by a group of kanwariyas, following a road accident in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur, police have arrested five persons. The victim succumbed to his injuries on August 4.

The police have also recovered the murder weapon – a danda or wooden stick – from one of the arrested accused, a police officer told The Wire. The stick was recovered based on the disclosure of accused person Daksh.

Azeem, who was originally a resident of Moradabad, died at a Delhi hospital, four days after he was beaten, allegedly by a group of men who were kanwariyas, in Hapur. He leaves behind a wife, an infant son, and an ailing father who has been bedridden for over a year.

Azeem was driving a mini truck to his workplace in the National Capital Region when in the early hours of July 31, the vehicle collided with a parked auto-rickshaw near the Shiva Dhaba, ahead of the Brijghat Toll Plaza in Hapur district.

Hapur police in a statement said that........

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