Experts find loopholes in the theory as an unnamed member of SIT tells media that Nishank’s death was a suicide, ‘guesses’ the motive

Nishank Rathore, a third-year college student, was found dead on the railway tracks near Obaidullaganj town in Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh on 24th July 2022. Before his death, his father had received a message that read, “Gustakh-e-Nabi ki ek saza, sar tan sey judaa.” Uma Shankar Rathore, the father of the victim Nishank Rathore, received the message at 5.44 pm on Sunday evening. Essentially, the SIT would be saying that Nishank harboured so much animosity towards the Muslim community, that even before committing suicide, he was thinking of implicating Muslims in his death. Even otherwise a person is expected to leave a suicide note or a message for his near and dear ones before killing oneself, not cryptic messages that appear like a conspiracy to malign a religious group.” “It is very difficult for me to imagine a teenager whose mind is so twisted that he kills himself to fix the Muslim community,” the officer explained why he was finding it difficult to take media reports at face value, “Such a person will have some past history. Give the several murders that have been committed by Islamists after issuing “sar tan se juda” threat, the SIT would need to come up with a little more than merely speculation to explain the death of Nishank Rathore.