Jharkhand: 2 men lynched by vigilantes over ‘cattle-lifting’

RANCHI: A mob on Wednesday lynched two Muslim men, branding them as cattle rustlers at the tribal dominated Dullu village under the Deodand police station in Godda district, about 330 km northeast of the state capital Ranchi, police said on Wednesday.

According to police, the incident took place on Wednesday morning, when villagers caught hold of the two men, Sirabuddin Ansari, 35, and Murtaza Ansari, 30, of adjoining villages, with cattle and accused them of being cattle lifters.

They alleged that they had stolen 13 buffaloes from the cow shed of one Munshi Murmu of Dullu village on Tuesday night.

According to villagers, the mob, while searching for the buffaloes, found five men towing the stolen cattle in the nearby Bankatti locality. They chased them and caught the two, while the other three fled. The mob beat them to death. “The villagers were allegedly searching for the buffaloes, and on Wednesday morning, they caught two persons with the cattle at Bankatti area and beat them to death,” said Godda superintendent of police Rajiv Kumar Singh.

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