In the last seven months, over two dozen cases of lynching have been reported across Bihar. Over three dozen lynching incidents were reported last year and many more might have gone unreported.

Patna: Two suspected thieves have been lynched in Gaya and Aurangabad districts of Bihar. Over two dozen lynching cases have been reported in the State since the beginning of the year.

A mob lynched a suspected thief at Hamjapur village under Amas police station in Gaya district on 4 August 2008. The victim was identified as Nukul Paswan, a Dalit, resident of Chatra, a district bordering Jharkhand.

Paswan was brutally beaten after he was caught allegedly trying to enter a house. He succumbed to internal injuries when brought to a government hospital by the police, SK Suman, a police official said. The police lodged a case of murder against half a dozen unidentified villagers, he added.

In another incident in Aurangabad district, a suspected thief was beaten to death by a mob of villagers at Visambhar Bigha village under Daudnagar police station on 4 August 2008. The victim had not been identified. He was beaten to death with bamboo sticks after being caught by the mob, the police sources said.

In the last seven months, over two dozen cases of lynching have been reported across the State. Over three dozen lynching incidents were reported last year and many more might have gone unreported, the police source said.

The worst lynching was reported in September last year when 10 men from the Keri community were beaten to death in Vaishali district on the suspicion that they were thieves. Later, a high-level probe found that the men were innocent.

(Source: sindhtoday.net dated 05 August 2008)

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