Patna, Dec. 15 -- A 40-year-old Muslim street vendor, Mohammad Athar Hussain, succumbed to his injuries on Friday, December 12, atSadar Hospital in Nawada, Bihar, after a brutal assault.

The attack took place on December 5, when a group of men approached him, forced him off his bicycle, and locked him in a room, where they humiliatingly checked his "Muslim" identity by asking him to undress.

A video of Hussain's last statement that emerged on December 12 has gone viral, where he described the disturbing details of the lynching and accused a group of men of the assault over his religious identity.

"Five people stopped me and started checking my pockets, took me to a room and locked me up. They told me to open my pants to make sure I am ...