Chennai Mob Lynches Boy

Chennai: A boy was beaten to death by a mob suspecting him to be a thief. The victim Balasubramani (15) is a school drop-out from the village. On Saturday night, tailor Munuswamy found his mobile was stolen and threatened the boy to return the mobile. The boy pleaded innocence. The locals and the Munuswamy started beating the boy and left him when he fell unconscious.

On Sunday morning, they came for the boy asking for the mobile, but the badly injured boy who battled his injuries all night died due to severe bleeding. The Karoor police learned the matter and shifted the body to postmortem. The accused Munuswamy, Parama Sivam, Selva Kumar, Manivel and Muniyappan have been arrested. The police also filed a case against the locals who were spectators and did not intervene. Some of the accused are yet to be arrested.

In a similar incident, An unidentified man was lynched by a mob in Banaskantha district of Gujarat on the suspicion that he was a thief, police said Sunday.

The incident took place at Harigadh village in Danta teshil on Saturday night, following which six persons were arrested Sunday, said sub-inspector B K Goswami.

An unidentified man, aged around 50, allegedly entered the house of Amrat Prajapati Saturday night, he said.

Members of the Prajapati family claimed that they woke up sensing that there was an intruder and caught the man, the police officer said.

"The family members and some other people in the village tied him to a banyan tree and beat him with sticks.

Around midnight, when the man fell unconscious, someone informed us and a police team was rushed there," said Goswami.

"The man was already dead when we reached the spot. We have registered a case of murder and arrested six persons today," he said.

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