<p>Syed Farid Khan, the man who was accused of rape and lynched by a frenzied mob in the Dimapur district of Nagaland, was buried on Sunday amid tight security in his village in of Karimganj, Assam.<br /><br />His funeral comes amid the arrest of 18 people suspected to be involved in his killing on March 5, when he was dragged out of jail and beaten to death.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the Nagaland government imposed a 48-hour Internet blackout in the state beginning Saturday night after videos pertaining to the lynching surfaced.</p>.<p>A government order published in local newspapers also instructed mobile service providers to block SMS/MMS services.<br /><br />Protests against the mob killing rocked many parts of Assam and a 12-hour bandh paralysed normal life in three districts of the Barak valley.<br /><br />The police said on Sunday that the arrests were made after mobile video clippings of the incident were scrutinised on Saturday evening and suspects are being interrogated.<br /><br />Khan’s funeral saw a huge turnout with former minister and Karimganj (South) MLA Siddeque Ahmed attending, Karimganj Deputy Commissioner Sanjiv Gohain Boruah said. <br /><br />His body was airlifted to Karimganj on Saturday evening after Nagaland authorities handed over his body to the Dimapur Muslim Council.<br /><br />Khan, who owned a motorparts shop in Dimapur, had been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in Dimapur on February 24 and was remanded to judicial custody in the Dimapur Central Jail the following day.<br /><br />On March 5, a mob broke into the jail, dragged him out, stripped him naked, beat him up, pelted him with stones and dragged him towards the centre of Dimapur town, seven kilometres away. <br /><br />The rape accused died from his injuries on the way after which the mob displayed his body from a clock tower. <br /><br />Official sources said medical reports of the purported rape victim are awaited. </p>
<p>Syed Farid Khan, the man who was accused of rape and lynched by a frenzied mob in the Dimapur district of Nagaland, was buried on Sunday amid tight security in his village in of Karimganj, Assam.<br /><br />His funeral comes amid the arrest of 18 people suspected to be involved in his killing on March 5, when he was dragged out of jail and beaten to death.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the Nagaland government imposed a 48-hour Internet blackout in the state beginning Saturday night after videos pertaining to the lynching surfaced.</p>.<p>A government order published in local newspapers also instructed mobile service providers to block SMS/MMS services.<br /><br />Protests against the mob killing rocked many parts of Assam and a 12-hour bandh paralysed normal life in three districts of the Barak valley.<br /><br />The police said on Sunday that the arrests were made after mobile video clippings of the incident were scrutinised on Saturday evening and suspects are being interrogated.<br /><br />Khan’s funeral saw a huge turnout with former minister and Karimganj (South) MLA Siddeque Ahmed attending, Karimganj Deputy Commissioner Sanjiv Gohain Boruah said. <br /><br />His body was airlifted to Karimganj on Saturday evening after Nagaland authorities handed over his body to the Dimapur Muslim Council.<br /><br />Khan, who owned a motorparts shop in Dimapur, had been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in Dimapur on February 24 and was remanded to judicial custody in the Dimapur Central Jail the following day.<br /><br />On March 5, a mob broke into the jail, dragged him out, stripped him naked, beat him up, pelted him with stones and dragged him towards the centre of Dimapur town, seven kilometres away. <br /><br />The rape accused died from his injuries on the way after which the mob displayed his body from a clock tower. <br /><br />Official sources said medical reports of the purported rape victim are awaited. </p>