Two men were lynched in two separate incidents in Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan on Tuesday, 31 July.
In Andhra Pradesh, 52-year-old FS Husain, from Nashik, was beaten to death for allegedly misbehaving with a woman, The Times of India reported.
As per the report, Husain, who was visiting Joharapuram village in Kurnool district, entered a house where a woman, upon spotting him, began screaming. Upon hearing the scream, he ran into another house, where the woman living there also began to scream. Residents allegedly caught him, tied him to a tree and thrashed him. Husain later succumbed to his injuries.
Lynching in Jodhpur
In a separate incident, a 30-year-old man named Rampal was beaten to death by over a dozen of villagers in Lavera Kalan in Jodhpur, for allegedly entering a woman’s house with “ill intentions”.
Rampal, an employee with a gas distribution agency, visited the house of the woman at around midnight on Tuesday, 31 July, The Times of India reports. Villagers told the newspaper that he had “deliberately” entered the house at that hour, with “wrong intentions”. However, Rampal’s father told the daily that he went there on the basis of a complaint.
The police have registered the complaint filed by the victim’s father against five people, including members of the woman’s family.
(With inputs from The Times of India)
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