The Facebook profile photo of Abhijit Nath, one of the two men lynched by a mob in Assam on Friday night, has little semblance to the lanky and shy boy that I had known some 14 years ago while I was a student at the Little Flower School in Guwahati. We were in the same batch of class X, in 2004.
As news about his death surfaced and the disturbing video of their assault circulated widely on social media, Abhijit’s friends were left wondering just why the frenzied mob suspected him to be a child abductor when he wouldn’t “even hurt a fly”.
Abhijit, 30, along with his musician friend Nilotpal Das, 29, had left home on Friday morning in search of some ornamental fishes in Karbi Anglong’s scenic Kangthilangso waterfall.Click Here: Geelong Cats Guernsey