An irate mob lynched two criminals in Garhwa town police station area of the district around 4 km from the district headquarter, while they were escaping after shooting one Vimal Singh a local.
Garhwa SP Anjani Kumar Jha said that the police recovered one country-made pistol along with live and empty cartridges from the spot. FIRs have been lodged from both sides. Efforts are on to arrest the accused.
Police said that the incident took place when Vimal Singh, a resident of Sukhbana village was standing in a bank of canal in the village, around bike borne criminals reached close to him and opened fire at him and sped away.
Injured Singh raised an alarm drawing the attention of the villagers, who assembled in large numbers and chased the fleeing criminals. The villagers managed to catch two criminals and lynched two of them on the spot. However, the other associate managed to dodge the villagers and escaped from there, police said.
On getting information, SDPO Awadh Kumar Yadav and Police Station in-charge Rajiv Kumar reached the spot. Singh was taken to Garhwa Hospital. Where doctors referred him to RIMS after first aid. Vimal Singh died on the way to RIMS.
The SDPO said that lynched criminals, who identified as Krishna Paswan, 35 and Santosh Chandravanshi, 32 were veteran criminal they were involved in murder of Pappy Khan, firing at the bus stand.
PS in-charge said that brother of deceased Vimal Singh, Vikesh Singh has lodged FIR against Krishna Paswan (lynched), Santosh Chandravanshi (lynched), Bhikhu Paswan, Anil Ram, Shyam Sundar Sharma, Chandrashekhar Dubey Madan Chandravanshi, Akil Ansari and Udai Singh.
On the other hand, an FIR has been lodged against unknown people by Krishna Paswan's father Naresh Ram.