By Animesh Bisoee / Telegraph India
Even as the bill against mob lynching passed by the Jharkhand Assembly in December last year is awaiting the President’s consent, another youth was lynched on Tuesday evening at a village in Jharkhand bordering Chhattisgarh.
Ejaz Khan (29), a native of Tigra village in Gobindpur panchayat under Jari police station of Gumla, was lynched by irate villagers of Neemgaon and Patratoli in Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh over suspicion of goat theft. Jashpur shares a border with Jharkhand.
Jashpur senior superintendent of police (SSP) D. Ravishankar said a case had been registered against Ezaz Khan and others at Kotwali police station in Jashpur district in Chhattisgarh.“We have come to know that villagers found Ezaz and his accomplice stealing a goat and escaping on a bike. They started giving a chase and during the chase, there was a scuffle between the villagers and Ezaz.
There is a river (Sankh) which separates Jashpur and Gumla and Ezaz left his bike on the river bank at Jashpur and he along with his accomplice managed to swim across the river and cross over to Gumla. They were chased by villagers from Chhattisgarh too. We have come to know from Gumla police that the villagers had beaten Ezaz to death while the other youth had managed to escape. Ezaz was involved in cattle smuggling from Chhattisgarh and had criminal cases lodged against him both in Chhattisgarh and Gumla,” said Ravishankar.
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