DHULE, MAHARASHTRA: What is now regrettably getting normalised, five persons were beaten to death by a mob on suspicion of being child lifters on Sunday in Rainpada village of Dhule district of Maharashtra.
According to the police sources 15 villagers who were a part of the mob that lynched the victims were arrested.
“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.
Meanwhile assuring justice will be served Shiv Sena leader Dada Bhuse, the Guardian Minister of Dhule said “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.”
The incident had the same pattern of lynching witnessed recently in Tripura and Uttar Pradesh. First rumors were spread on whatsapp groups about movement of unknown persons as child kidnappers.
When you have semi-literate jobless youth and middle-aged inflamed with hatred and suspicion to everyone, what Modiji’s leadership gives us is readily available rioteers, rapists, mob-lynchers and murderers.