The victim, Mohammed Arif Mohiuddin, a resident of Bahadurpura in Old City, who was in the US from 10 years was stabbed in his convenience store in Thomason City of Georgia.
He had shifted to the United States for higher studies and had plans to settle there. Earlier, he was working in a consultancy firm. After losing his job there, he started this business two months ago.
The criminals were his business rivals and two of them were Indian Nationals and one US Citizen. They stabbed him multiple times and he was found bleeding outside his house on Crawley Street.
On investigating the reason for being murdered, the Thomaston Police Chief, Mike Richardson, said that Arif, who did his business at ‘The Heights’, a convenience store on East Moore’s Crossing had some business dispute with the claimed attackers.
On looking into the footage of the surveillance cameras close to Arif’s property, there were multiple assailants and an employee found at the store.
Asif’s father-in-law Khaja Moizuddin, a retired Physical Director from Anwarul Uloom College told The Hindu, “They (attackers) wanted to open a new store quite opposite to Asif’s on East Moore’s Crossing, and the local authorities asked them to take clearance from the former, for which he denied as his business could run into losses with the opening of another store on the opposite street,”
Arif was married to Mehnaaz Fatima (27) two years ago and they have a 10-month-old daughter. Arif had last visited Hyderabad in 2019. His mother stays with his sister in Australia.
Both Moizuddin and Mehnaaz applied for an emergency visa to the US to see Arif for the ‘last time’ before the body is buried there.
As of now, Arif’s body is taken to the crime lab for investigation and Mr. Ghouse who stays an hour away from Thomaston city is coordinating with the authorities.
His wife said “I request the government to arrange for me and my father to go to the US on an emergency visa so that we could perform his final rites.
