Blinded by anger, a 38-year-old man killed his friend for refusing to identify in court the people who had beaten the former black and blue several years ago. In 2012, when a mob attacked Vikram Valmiki, 34, his friend Jitendra Chudiyan came to his rescue and was thrashed badly.

When a case was registered, Vikram, a resident of Vidyavihar, had agreed to become a witness, but during the trial in February last year, he refused to identify the attackers.