By Our Bureau
A 22-year old man was lynched on Saturday on suspicion of mobile phone theft in the Calcutta suburb of Salt Lake on Saturday.
The victim has been identified as Prasen Mandal.
This is the second such incident in the city in two days. On Friday, police detained around 15 men after a man was lynched in the heart of Calcutta. The victim, identified only by his first name, Irshad, was employed with a TV repair shop in the Chandni Chowk area.
Irshad was also lynched on the suspicion of being a mobile phone thief.
Three persons have been arrested in connection with the Salt Lake case, police sources said.
According to the Bidhannagar Police, the three accused in the case had brutally assaulted Mandal and later took him to a private hospital in Salt Lake.
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