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26/09/2007

Five more lynched in Bihar

 

Patna, Sep 26 :Bihar's saga of bloody vigilante justice continues with five people being beaten to death at various places for various reasons - ranging from property disputes to petty theft.

All five, including one woman, were lynched by mobs Monday and Tuesday. The woman was killed on suspicion of practicing witchcraft. One man lost his life because he was suspected to be a thief, another over a dispute on drainage and two over property issues.

In a savage irony, Sanichri Devi, 60, a poor woman in Kaimur district's Kotamdag Kolhuan village, was beaten to death with bamboo sticks for allegedly practicing witchcraft after a witchcraft practitioner said she was the one responsible for the ills of the village.

"She was first humiliated and hot water poured on her body to force her to accept that she was practicing witchcraft. When she refused, she was thrashed and beaten to death by bamboo sticks," police said.

Police have lodged a case against six villagers under the Prevention of Witchcraft Practices Act.

In the second incident, Bikram Ram, 22, was lynched in Lohkhara village of Gopalgunj district Monday night when he was caught after allegedly stealing something from the house of Kariman Manjhi. Police have registered a case against Manjhi.

Parmanand Prasad, 35, was beaten to death with bamboo sticks and rods in Dumri village in Siwan district over a property dispute.

Similar was the case of 27-year-old Lal Babu Sahni who was killed in Laxmipur village of Muzaffarpur district over a land dispute.

A dispute over drainage claimed the life of 45-year-old Shiv Narayan Sah in Hakpara village of Saharsa district.

Before this, several cases of lynching in the state have come to light in the last 15 days.

The worst of these was the brutal killing of 10 men from the underprivileged Kueri community in Vaishali district on Sep 13. A high-level probe conducted after the incident found that the men were not thieves as suspected earlier.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar imposed a fine against the residents of the village where the men were lynched.

Two suspected thieves were beaten to death by a mob in a Patna locality last week. The same week a young man in Sitamarhi was murdered by a mob on suspicion that he had stolen a statue.

(IANS)

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I am sorry but this appears sensationalisation. The five appear murder cases rather than vigilante justice.

Sad as these are, any society has murders. Given that Bihar's population is almost 90 million, five murders should be seen in context.


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