Nitin says he then knocked at several doors but none answered. “I think they were all too scared to open the door. Stones were flying all over the area.”

He called up a few neighbours who rushed to the spot and took the duo to Jag Parvesh Chandra Hospital in Shastri Park on a scooter.

“My father was breathing when we reached the hospital. They took me to a room for stitches. When I came out, the doctors told me my father was dead. It was around midnight,” he says.

Vinod Kumar is survived by his wife Madhu, Nitin and a daughter. The daughter is married to a neighbour, Mohammad Haneef, who says he is just about the only relative the family has in the area.

The family was yet to receive the body after post-mortem when we visited.

“I am left all alone. I don’t have a guardian anymore,” says Nitin, who is married and has a son.

Nitin runs a DJ business.

Nitin says he does not know the man who shot their videos. “I saw the videos only in the afternoon. I don’t know who he was. It seems like he was standing nearby. He could have very well helped us instead.”

Nitin’s house is around 500 metres from the Gali number one’s entrance. He says he did not know that the area was tensed. “Had I known, I would not have ventured outside. Am I a mad man to go out in a riot-like situation?”