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Uttar Pradesh : Youth lynched in Bareily over alleged cattle theft

Uttar Pradesh : Youth lynched in Bareily over alleged cattle theft

| @indiablooms | 30 Aug 2018, 08:46 am

Bareily, Aug 30 (IBNS) : A 20-year-old youth was lynched on suspicion of cattle thief by a mob n Bholapur Hindoliya village in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district in the early hours of Wednesday, media reports said.

It is alleged that Shahrukh Khan was trying to steal cattle along with his three accomplices when around 50 villagers caught him and started beating him. The men accompanying him escaped from the scene.

An FIR has been lodged against 30 unidentified villagers along with accomplices of the deceased Shahrukh.

The victim was reported to be alive when he was rescued by the police, but he succumbed to his injuries in the hospital.

The reports qauoted the police as saying that the deceased along with his three friends was trying to steal a buffalo at around 3am when he was spotted by the farmer. Following which villagers caught him and started thrashing him as his three accomplices managed to escape somehow. The victim was rescued by police at around 6m and was taken to district hospital, where he died later.

An FIR has been lodged against 30 unidentified villagers under section 302 (murder). Police have also registered a case against Shahrukh's accomplices.

"We have got complaints from both the sides and cases have been registered against 30 unidentified villagers as well as three people who accompanied the victim," the police said.

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