Earlier this month, Deepak Kumar made headlines after intervening to protect an elderly Muslim shopkeeper from Hindutva vigilantes in Uttarakhand’s Kotdwar. What was less examined, however, was the police response that followed.

This investigation looks closely at the FIRs filed after the incident outside the shop on January 26 and the mob violence outside Deepak’s gym on January 28, and the troubling discrepancies between them.

When Deepak went to the police station with a written complaint naming 20 individuals who........

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