Thirty-five-year-old Seema Dagar of Kailash Nagar on the outskirts of Haryana’s Palwal district was ready with her story of how her “innocent” husband Ramesh, 38, has been framed by the police.

Ramesh is one of five arrested for mob violence that caused the gory death of 16-year-old ‘Hafiz’ Mohammad Junaid on a running train between Faridabad and Asauti on 22 June.

About 32 kms south of Palwal town, in Khambi village (aka Khami) under Hasanpur tehsil, the Pandit and Kshatriya residents defended Chandraprakash, 25, another suspect nabbed by the police for alleged involvement in the lynching.

The overwhelmingly Hindu residents of Khambi, in Haryana’s backwaters, have a hateful narrative about the Muslim “woh” (Other) who “are getting all the attention now”.