Overview
- Angel Chakma, 24, succumbed to injuries sustained after a December 9 assault in Dehradun’s Selaqui area, where his brother reported they were targeted with racist and casteist slurs.
- He was treated in critical condition at Graphic Era Hospital for about two weeks before dying on Friday, according to police and hospital accounts.
- Dehradun police arrested five accused on December 14 and they are in judicial custody after the case was upgraded from assault/attempted murder to murder.
- Senior police officials said another accused, reported to be a Nepali national, crossed the border and is being pursued with legal action underway.
- The Chakma family has demanded strict punishment, and the victim’s father, a BSF jawan, has taken the body to Tripura for last rites.