Police stated Sarat Moran had gone to Korjonga to remain at a good friend’s home.
Guwahati:
A 34-year-old man was allegedly lynched on the suspicion of cattle theft in higher Assam’s Tinsukia district yesterday.
The incident occurred at Korjonga village within the district and the sufferer has been recognized as Sarat Moran.
Police stated Mr Moran, who was from Kordoi village in the identical space, had gone to Korjonga to remain in a single day at a good friend’s home when a mob attacked him on the suspicion that he was a cattle lifter. Local residents stated Sarat Moran was stripped and overwhelmed up after a public trial by a kangaroo courtroom. On receiving details about the incident, native police rushed to the spot and rescued Mr Moran and admitted him to the FRU hospital in Doomdooma the place he succumbed to his accidents, stated sources.
Superintendent of Police, Tinsukia, Debojit Deori stated, “We have detained 12 people in connection with the incident and are questioning them. We have found several cut marks on the victims’ body and are waiting for the postmortem report.”
“We have registered a case under Sections 302 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code following a complaint lodged by the uncle of the victim,” Mr Deori added.
He stated that whereas the sufferer had been arrested in a case previously, it isn’t but clear if he was concerned in cattle theft.
The police officer added that the Korjonga village had witnessed a number of situations of cattle theft over the previous one month.
Mob violence over the suspicion of cattle theft has emerged as a menace in Assam, with a number of incidents of lynching being reported over the previous few years.
In 2017, a mob had lynched two males in Nagaon district over the identical suspicion. Last yr, three suspected Bangladeshi cattle lifters had been overwhelmed to dying by a mob in Karimganj district.
