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New Delhi: The Delhi Police Thursday night revised its official death toll in last week’s communal riots to 44, though reports pegged the figure at 53. The police, however said bodies were still being recovered and the identification process was underway.

First released on 27 February, the list was last updated Thursday. As a result, several names have been dropped from the earlier list. The discrepancy, police said, is likely a result of misidentification.

“There were a lot of bodies that were unidentified. So during their initial identification, the person in-charge making the list could have confused the names. It also happened that some relatives first identified a person and later retracted (their statement),” a police officer said Monday.

“The official list till now only has 44 dead,” he added.

The process to identify others is on, the officer said, adding that three bodies were fished out from a drain Sunday. “Those too are yet to identified. We will issue another list once there is more clarity on their names and age,” he said.

Violence broke out 23 February evening after pro- and anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests clashed. The clashes carried on for three days, with mobs armed with stones, sticks and rods running amok in Northeast Delhi.

Also read: Why Modi decided to send Ajit Doval to enforce the law, bring peace to Northeast Delhi

Below is the current list of 44 deceased. It will be updated when more information is available.

Brijpuri

Mehtab (22 years), Physical assault

Bhajanpura

Akbari (70 years), Burn injury

Bhajanpura Police Station

Mahroof Ali (32 years), Physical assault

Bhagirathi Vihar

Musaraf (28 years), Physical assault

Dayalpur

Prem Singh (30 years), Physical assault

Dayalpur Police Station

Unknown (25 years), Gunshot

Unknown* (25 years), Physical assault

*Was initially identified as Mohseen (22 years)

Gokulpuri

Ratan Lal (42 years), Gunshot

Dilbar (21 years), Burn injury

Nitin (23 years), Physical assault

Gokulpuri Police Station

Unknown (25 years), Physical assault`

Hasim Ali (26 years), Physical assault

Ghonda

Vinod (42 years)

Jagatpuri

Rahul Thakur (25 years), Gunshot



Kabir Nagar

Istayak (24 years), Gunshot

Karawal Nagar

Alok Tiwari (32 years), Physical assault

Dinesh (35 years), Gunshot

Rahul Solanki (26 years), Gunshot

Jamaluddin (30 years), Physical assault

Karawal Nagar Police Station

Suleman (45 years), Physical assault

Unknown (32 years), Physical assault

Kardampuri

Md Furkan (30 years), Gunshot

Faizan S (24 years)

Kartarnagar

Irfan (25 years), Physical assault

Khajuri Khas

Ankit Sharma (26 years), Physical assault

Babbu (32 years), Stone pelting

Khajuri Khas Police Station

Unknown (45 years), Physical assault

Loni

Shad Mohammed (35 years), Gunshot

Salman (24 years), Stone pelting

Md. Sahnawaj (Age unknown), Burn injury

Mandoli

Deepak (34 years), Stabbing

Maujpur

Md Mubarak Hussain (28 years), Gunshot

Pravesh (48 years), Gunshot

Beer Khan* (40 years), Physical assault

*Initially identified as Vir Bhan

Mustafabad

Md Mudassar (30 years), Gunshot

Asfaq Hussain (22 years), Physical assault

Sahaban (25 years), Gunshot

Aakil Ahahid (26 years), Physical assault

Sharif Khan (90 years), Burn injury

Old Mustafabad

Amir Khan (28 years), Physical assault

New Delhi

Naresh Saini (32 years), Gunshot

New Mustafabad

Zakir (24 years), Physical assault

Shahid (24 years), Physical assault

New Sabhapur Village

Arshad Raza (32 years), Physical assault

Seelampur

Amaan (18 years), Gunshot

(The copy was last updated 5 March)

Also read: Why Delhi riots are different — what ThePrint’s 13 reporters, photojournalists saw on ground

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