Begum Bazaar, a trading market in the heart of Hyderabad, which usually bustles with business reverberated with slogans on Saturday morning. Shops were shut after 22-year-old Neeraj Panwar was brutally hacked to death by five persons on Friday night. Protests and rallies were held demanding justice for Neeraj’s family.
Neeraj’s wife Sanjana (21) said he was attacked as her family members were against their love marriage. The young widow who was grieving demanded that the attackers be hanged. The young couple got married in April last year. They have a two-month-old son.
Business persons from the locality, members of the Hyderabad Kirana Merchants Association, walked from Mitti ka Sher, Feelkhana, and gathered in huge numbers at Shahinayathgunj police station. Merchants in the locality decided on Friday night that they would shut shops on Saturday, and will hold a protest.
