A 37-year-old Hyderabadi man Mohammed Arif Mohiuddin, who had been running a grocery business in Thomaston city in Georgia in the US, was killed allegedly by his business rivals.
According to reports, he was stabbed multiple times by the attackers, a US citizen and two Indian nationals, and was found dead in a pool of blood outside his house in Georgia. The victim, Mohammed Arif Mohiuddin, a resident of Azampura Chaman Road, old city of Hyderabad went to the United States 10 years ago for higher studies and settled there.
He opened the store two months ago, after losing the job at a consultancy firm due to COVID-19 lockdown. The family members told The Daily Guardian that the store business was good. Footage of the surveillance cameras near Arif’s property had shown four persons, two women and two men, killed him, one of them is an employee of his store.
The wife of the deceased, Mehnal Fatima, told TDG, “We have a 10 months old baby girl. I need a visa urgently to go to Georgia. We requested the US consulate here for a visa. I saw the CCTV footage that shows four people including two women killed him. He hung up the phone stating he will call back in half an hour but I did not get any call from him. He was not answering to my repeated calls, and I grew suspicious on that day. They killed my husband brutally.”
Khaja Mohiuddin, father of the victim said “I came to know that he had some financial dispute with a partner. He was killed on Saturday night. After losing his job, he had opened a grocery showroom. Now the dead body is in hospital. I request the government to provide a visa for us to go there.”
Meanwhile, the Georgia police informed that the investigation is going on, a few people were taken into custody. As per the initial report, two Indians, and one US citizen are suspected to be involved in the crime. Arif’s wife Fatima has appealed to the Minister for External Affairs S. Jaishankar to arrange an emergency visa for her and her father-in-law to fly to the US.
In a letter to the minister, she also urged her to ask the Indian embassy in Washington and the Indian consulate in Atlanta to ensure a speedy probe into his murder. Majlis Bachao Tehreek (MBT) leader Amjedullah Khan called on the family and urged Telangana minister K. T. Rama Rao to request the US consulate in Hyderabad to immediately issue visas to Mehnaaz and Khaja Mohiuddin.