Faizan’s family has been slightly luckier in this regard. Farooq travelled to Lucknow on April 26 to see his son at the ATS police station in Lucknow. “He seemed fine,” Farooq said of Faizan. “The police asked me why I didn’t do anything to prevent this to which I said that since he finished studying he was working and I didn’t have any idea he could be involved in all this,” he told Newslaundry. Echoing Shamshad, Farooq also expressed a wish for justice to be done at the earliest. “If he is guilty, then he should be imprisoned,” he said. “But you won’t find anyone in this village or anyone who knows him who can find a fault in him. And if he has made a mistake, we wish to get chance to work with our son and ensure something like this doesn’t happen again.”