Five lynched in Maharashtra’s Dhule district on suspicion of being child lifters


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Five lynched in Maharashtra’s Dhule district on suspicion of being child lifters

When one of them apparently tried to speak to a girl child, villagers pounced on them, police said.

Five persons were beaten to death by a mob in Maharashtra’s Dhule district on Sunday on the suspicion of being child lifters.

Police sources said that the incident, which has sent shock waves across the region, took place in the district’s Sakri tehsil, 330 km from Pune.

The crime occurred between 12:30 and 1:00 p.m. after a group of seven-eight people were assaulted by a mob at the tribal Rainpada hamlet in Sakri.

“Preliminary reports suggest that the group of men were seen disembarking from a State transport bus. When one among them attempted to speak to a girl child, a crowd which had gathered for the Sunday bazaar mistook the strangers for child lifters and swooped upon them,” said a police official, adding that rumours of a gang of child lifters were on the prowl in Sakri prompted the mob to vigilante action.

Without bothering to ascertain the identity of the strangers, the mob dragged the hapless group to the Rainpada Gram Panchayat office and mercilessly beat them up with sticks and other objects.

Five persons were killed in the violent melee, with the area outside the panchayat office being chequered with the blood stains of the victims.
Policemen injured

The mob even attacked a police team which arrived at the spot to pacify it. Two policemen were injured in an attempt to quell the restive crowd.

All the five deceased, whose bodies were taken to a local hospital, hailed from Solapur district, said authorities. The victims are yet to be identified.

Special IG (Nashik range) Chhering Dorje rushed to the spot of the crime. Additional police teams are being brought from neighbouring Nandurbar and Nashik districts.

The police have appealed to residents of Sakri to show restraint and stop believing in rumours on social media.

“The unfortunate incident appears to be a case of false rumours going viral on social media. An investigation will be conducted into the case and stern action will be taken against the miscreants,” said Shiv Sena leader Dada Bhuse, the Guardian Minister of Dhule.

Minister of State for Home Deepak Kesarkar will visit the district on July 2 to take stock of the situation.
False rumours doing the rounds

A series of similar incidents has rocked the State’s rural hinterland, with people being beaten up or killed simply on suspicion of being child lifters or thieves owing to false rumours on social media.

Last month, two persons from the nomadic Pardhi community were brutally beaten to death and six more were seriously injured by a mob in Aurangabad district’s Vaijapur tehsil on suspicion of being robbers.

On June 15, three people, including a woman, sustained injuries after being beaten up by mobs that were triggered by rumours in two separate incidents in Aurangabad.

A woman from Ranjangaon village, who was looking for a house on rent, was assaulted by a mob in Valuj in Aurangabad on allegations of being a child lifter.

A video recording of the incident showing the woman being mercilessly beaten by the mob did the rounds of social media. The lady was later rescued by the local police.

In the second case, two persons from Madhya Pradesh were beaten by a mob in Padegaon on suspicion of being thieves.

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