1 Lynched, Other Injured for Allegedly Stealing Goat in Jharkhand
Three people have been arrested, Dumka’s SP said.
Two young men were tied with ropes and reportedly beaten up brutally by locals in Kathikund village in Dumka, Jharkhand, for allegedly stealing a goat, reported ANI, quoting the Superintendant of Police, Dumka.
The man who died was Subhan Ansari, 26. While his friend who is in the hospital is Dulal Mirdha, 22.
A senior police officer Ambar Lakda stated that an FIR will be filed against the villagers involved in the lynching, according to NDTV.
Villagers have claimed that they were spotted butchering a goat outside the village by some men who had surrounded them and accused them of theft.
The crowd allegedly dragged them into the village and tied them to a tree.
Then they thrashed the two men, and by the time the police arrived, they were found injured and bleeding.
(With inputs from ANI, NDTV)
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