Man lynched over suspicion of being cattle thief in Tripura

A 36-year-old man was lynched by a mob in Dhalai district of Tripura over suspicion of being a cattle thief. The man was taken to Gandacherra hospital but succumbed to his injuries during the course of treatment.

Raishayabari: An unruly mob lynched a man suspecting him to be a cattle thief in a village in Dhalai district here on Wednesday.

The man, identified as Jyoti Kumar, hailed from a remote tribal village in Dhalai district's Raishyabari area.

The 36-year-old was taken to Gandacherra hospital in the vicinity, where he took his last breath.

"On July 2, we received information that a thief has been caught. When we reached the spot, we found that he was badly beaten up by the people, who had caught him. We took him to the hospital nearby, where he died a few hours later," Suleman Reang, Officer-in-Charge of the Rasyabari police station told media persons.

The post-mortem of the deceased was conducted to ascertain the cause of death, said the officer.

Daya Kumar, the elder brother of Tripura said: "I have no idea why he went to a village, which is around three kilometres away from his house and who had attacked him."

According to a source, Jyoti had allegedly barged into the cowshed of a resident in Raishyabari area and was caught by the members of the house as he was about to flee. They raised an alarm to bring the villagers, who then thrashed him.