Jaunpur: Two people who tried to impersonate as transgenders were brutally thrashed and their hair tonsured by residents of Lalapur village under Sarpataha police limits in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur on Tuesday.
According to sources, two fake trans persons entered into the Lalapur village this morning and started seeking alms in a person's house where a baby was born recently. While performing the rituals of blessings, some villagers caught them and beaten black and blue. Later, the villagers tonsured the duo's hair.
The villagers have lodged a police complaint stating that the two fake transpersons had visited a person's house asking for money to bless the newborn baby. Following this, villagers punished them.