Ghaziabad: A nearly 4-minute clip from a CCTV camera inside businessman and YouTuber Saleem Wastik’s office in Loni captures the ferocity of the Feb 27 assault on him.It shows two men in helmets – later identified as Zeeshan and Ghulfam, brothers from Amroha who lived in Ghaziabad’s Khoda Colony and worked as carpenters – walking in, appearing to accept Wastik’s invitation to take a seat, then suddenly lunging at him with a paper cutter and repeatedly aiming for his throat. The clip begins with Wastik reclining on a sofa, watching a video on his phone. The two men — later identified by police as Ghulfam and his brother Zeeshan — enter wearing helmets. Wastik gestures for them to sit. One of the two visitors instead pulls out a paper cutter. Both move in together, pin Wastik down, and go for this throat. As Wastik struggles and screams for help, one of the assailants in a blue jacket shits the door to thwart any rescue attempt prevent Wastik’s screams from travelling. The fight spills into the glass table nearby. In the scuffle, the table breaks. One attacker grabs a jagged portion of the glass top and begins striking Wastik with it. The blows come in quick succession — eight hits with the broken glass shard, seen in the footage. A woman appears outside the office, sees the attack unfolding, and hesitates at the threshold. The assailants, meanwhile, switch back to the cutter and attack again before leaving. A separate 23-second video shows two men fleeing on a motorbike after the assault. The bike carries a Delhi number plate, and blood is visible on their clothes. Police said this clip was recorded by a commuter and handed over to investigators. Before the attack, according to police, Zeeshan and Ghulfam arrived on a bike, parked outside Wastik’s office, and told children nearby to move away before walking in. Wastik was stabbed 14 times in the abdomen and near the throat, police said. His condition remains critical. While Wastik’s son Usman had earlier said only his father could reveal the motive behind the attack on him, police commissioner J Ravindra Goud told TOI on Thursday cops believe the brothers were not happy with Wastik’s views on Islam and the videos he uploaded. Another likely motive, according to Goud, was that Zeeshan had very few followers on his Instagram handle and wanted to do something that would make him well-known. “We checked their social media and bank accounts, but so far, we haven’t found anything to suggest they were triggered by someone else,” Goud said, suggesting the brothers were acting on their own. Zeeshan was killed in an encounter in Loni on March 1 night. A Splendor bike and the paper cutter were recovered from him, along with a 0.32 bore pistol “made in Italy” and live cartridges. Ghulfam was killed in another encounter in Vasundhara on March 3.
