It took more than a month after Aleem Ansari was killed in the Indian city of Meerut for his family to get the postmortem report

It took more than a month after Aleem Ansari was killed in the Indian city of Meerut for his family to get the postmortem report. When they finally did, they weren’t surprised by the conclusion: a bullet wound to the 24-year-old’s head.
But what they do dispute is the account by local police that Ansari, a Muslim, was shot by a violent protester on December 20 amid unrest following passage of a controversial citizenship law.
“I don’t have an iota of belief in that,” said his older brother, Mohammad Salahuddin. “They are saying that to cover up what they did.”
Protests against India’s controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) have gripped the country since the law was passed on December 11. Critics of the CAA say it is anti-Muslim because it provides a fast track to citizenship for Hindus, Christians and other religious minorities from India’s neighbouring countries but leaves out Muslims.