India News | 4 Held for Lynching Labourer in Jharkhand''s Latehar

Latehar (Jharkhand), Mar 10 (PTI) Four people were arrested for allegedly lynching a labourer in Jharkhand's Latehar district, police said on Monday.

Forty-year-old labourer Salim Khan, who hailed from Datia district in Madhya Pradesh, was suspected of stealing goats and lynched allegedly by a group of people at Goa village under the Sadar Police Station limit in Latehar on Saturday night.

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“Four accused in the case have been arrested and sent to jail on Monday. The accused were identified as Binokha Singh, Kamlesh Singh, Akhilesh Singh and Amresh Singh,” according to a police statement.

Khan had been working as a labourer at a brick kiln for the past three months.

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Khan's younger brother Jamil Khan told police that his elder brother had gone to the Goa village to consume liquor.

The villagers then accused him of being a goat thief and started beating him up.

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