Bareilly, April 30 -- A 30-year-old cleric was killed after he was allegedly beaten and thrown off a moving train on Sunday, April 26, near the Bareilly Railway Station in Uttar Pradesh.

The deceased, Maulana Tousif Raza Mazhari, a resident of Bakhotoli village in Bihar's Kishanganj district, was found dead on the railway tracks late on Sunday night. He was an imam and a madrasa teacher in Siwan, Bihar, and went to Bareilly to attend the death anniversary celebration or Urs of Tajusharia. The incident occurred while he was returning home by train.

Raza's family has strongly rejected the railway authorities' claim that it was an accident. Instead, they alleged that he was beaten during the journey and murdered by some unidentified indivi...