Rehmatullah is 60-something, has a red beard and always wears a namazi's cap. He was an accused in the infamous Hari Masjid case, where, says the Srikrishna Commission Report, policemen led by sub-inspector Nikhil Kapse barged into a small mosque in Wadala and shot at the namazi's, killing four, during the post-Babri Masjid Mumbai riots. It was a Sunday in January 1993. Rehmatullah, who stays close to the mosque, had gone there for the afternoon namaz. His most vivid memory of that bloody afternoon is a newly married young man being shot dead inside the masjid; Rehmatullah carried his body outside.
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