Days after 23-year-old Sahil, a first-year college student, lost his life after being beaten in north Delhi's Jafrabad, reportedly because of a dispute over using a lane, his family has claimed that he was killed as the accused mistook him "to be a Muslim".

The police, however, say the incident is not communal, and have arrested two on the charge of murder.

On the one hand, Sahil's mother, Sangeeta, said that he had gone to help his friend's brother, who had reportedly got into a scuffle with someone named Sanjay Chandrabhan and his minor son, late on Friday, 30 August.