Mohammad Farid aka Aurangzeb has been booked for armed robbery 12 days after he was lynched in an Aligarh city market, the murder opening up faultlines between communities.

Aurangzeb, 30, was beaten to death by alleged shopkeepers in the Ghas Mandi locality on June 18 — the brutality captured in video clips — with conflicting versions portraying him as an honest street vendor and a fleeing robber.

After the police arrested six shopkeepers on June 19 on the basis of CCTV footage, Hindu shopkeepers downed shutters for a day in protest.

Several Muslim families in the neighbourhood, on the other hand, put up notices saying they wanted to sell their homes, alleging they feared attacks on account of their religion. Point made, the notices were taken off.

On Sunday, Aligarh police registered a case of robbery against 10 people including Aurangzeb based on a complaint that a relative of one of the arrested suspects had lodged on June 19.

Aurangzeb’s mother Zubaida Begum had alleged that shopkeepers had lynched her son, who sold readymade garments, because they “didn’t want him to stand with his cart in front of their shops”.

But a woman from the family of arrested shopkeeper Mukesh Chandra Mittal complained to the police that Aurangzeb and two friends had barged into the family’s home, carrying weapons, and locked everyone in a room.

“They misbehaved with the women and left with some jewellery and about Rs 4 lakh in cash. While running away from my house, Aurangzeb fell on the road but his friends escaped…. He was caught by the people when we raised the alarm,” the complaint said.

Mittal, however, told reporters just before his arrest that Aurangzeb had entered his home to steal but fell off the first floor and suffered fatal injuries.

Aurangzeb’s post-mortem report says he had 22 injury marks.

In one of the videos, lasting 1.49 minutes, a mob appears to ask Aurangzeb to name his friends with whom he was allegedly doing a “recce” of the area (with crime on their minds). Someone in the mob purportedly shouts: “Break his knees.”

Another video, of 2.18 minutes, appears to show about 15 people surrounding and thrashing Aurangzeb, many of them wielding sticks. Aurangzeb appears to be apologising for something and pleading for mercy.

On Sunday, city superintendent of police Mrigank Shekhar Pathak told reporters: “The case has been registered against Farid, seven named friends and two unidentified people. An inquiry is on.”

Aurangzeb, the second among three brothers and three sisters, was unmarried.