Tensio­n grips Aligar­h after two-year-old toddle­r's murder­Days after the killing of a two-year-old girl fuelled tension in India’s Uttar Pradesh state, a Hindu woman saved a Muslim family from being attacked by a mob. According to News18, the incident took place in the Aligarh district as the family was travelling in a van to attend an engagement. They were accompanied by 24-year-old Puja Chauhan who is a close family friend, police said. The mob identified the travellers since some of the women were wearing veils, according to a complaint filed at the Civil Lines police station. “He quietly handed us our van keys and whispered: ‘run off immediately’.”The family managed to reach Aligarh, although the driver’s hands got severely injured.

Source: The Express Tribune June 11, 2019 18:11 UTC