3 suspected abductors lynched in Bihar
PATNA: Three people were killed in Bihar’s Begusarai district on Friday morning, allegedly by a mob of local villagers, teachers and students who suspected them of trying to abduct a girl from a government-run school, the police said.
Police said the people beat the three men to death when they forcibly entered a newly constructed primary school building at Narayan Pipar village in Begusarai district, 140 km east of state capital Patna.
Begusarai superintendent of police (SP) Aditya Kumar said four men went to the school on a motorcycle at about 10.30am looking for a girl who studied there. “When headmistress Neema Kumari told them that the girl they were looking for was absent, one of the them took out a pistol. Seeing the pistol, the headmistress became unconscious... Panic-stricken schoolchildren ran out and raised an alarm following which a number of villagers surrounded the school. The men tried to save themselves by hiding in a classroom, but the agitated villagers, teachers and stu- dents dragged them out by breaking the doors and assaulted them with bamboo sticks, bricks and iron rods,” the SP said.
“One of the criminals died on the spot and two succumbed to their injuries on the way to hospital. The fourth managed to flee,” he added.
Kumar said by the time police reached the spot, Mukesh Mahto had succumbed to injuries, while Shyam Singh and Hira Singh died on the way to a hospital.
The SP said Mahto, brother of wanted criminal Nagmani Mahto, was involved in several cases of loot and murder in the region. The other two — Shyam Singh alias Bauna Singh and his relative Hira Singh, a resident of Rosera in Samastipur — also had criminal records, he said.
This is the sixth incident of lynching in Bihar and second in Begusarai this year. On March 25, a suspected criminal was lynched in Sinhaul police station area of Begusarai. On July 14, a man identified as Gopal Natt was lynched by an irate mob in Rohtas after he allegedly killed his wife.
On February 8, angry villagers beat to death Tilak Manjhi on suspicion of being a thief in Jamui district.