Syed Salim was at the Ajmer Dargah, in Rajasthan on October 11, 2007, like hundreds of others, to offer his prayers, when a bomb ripped through the shrine. A hasty and irresponsible investigation by the state police wrongly implicated him as a suicide bomber in the blast. But two years after the blast, the police finally accepted that Salim was not a terrorist but one of the victims.
Salim, a Hyderabad-resident, was not alive to see his humiliation and relief, however, his family lived through it all – the pain and humiliation apart from the agony of his death. The CBI, which is probing the case, concluded that Salim was not the suicide bomber after it was confirmed that the blast had been carried out by Hindutva groups.