Five suspected thieves lynched in Bihar
June 8th, 2010 - 6:32 pm ICT by IANSPatna, June 8 (IANS) In yet another incident of ‘mob justice’, five people suspected to be thives, were Tuesday lynched by a mob in a village in Bihar’s Samastipur district, police said.
“The villagers suspected the men of being members of a local gang of thieves and brutally beat them with bricks, stones and bamboo sticks after they were caught in Chak-Pahad village,” Samastipur Superintendent of Police Ajitabh Kumar told IANS over phone.
Police lodged a case of murder against some unidentified villagers.
In the last two months, over 20 cases of lynching have been reported across the state, a police official said.
The worst case was reported in September 2007 when 10 men from the underprivileged Keri community were beaten to death in Vaishali district on the suspicion that they were thieves. Later, a high-level probe found the men innocent.
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