A "fact-finding" team comprising Dalit rights activists, who claimed to have visited Saharanpur to probe the killing of Sachin Walia, said today that he was shot after being mistaken for his brother and Bhim Army district president Kamal Walia.
On Wednesday, unidentified assailants shot Sachin Walia in Saharanpur in western Uttar Pradesh. He succumbed to the wounds at the district hospital later, triggering tension in the area.
Speaking at a conference in Delhi against the killing, policy and advocacy officer with National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, Kamal Chand, said: "There was a plot to kill Kamal Walia, but Sachin was mistaken for his brother as both their faces look somewhat similar and was killed. Even in videos, you can hear voices saying this is Kamal shoot him."
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