: Three people were on Monday arrested in connection with the lynching of two men for carrying cows in a pick-up van in Jalpaiguri district.
Superintendent of Police Amitabha Maiti said the police had detained eight people from Barohalia village, where the lynching occurred on Sunday morning, for questioning.
later, three of them were arrested and the rest released, he said, adding that the police were in the look-out for some more people involved in the lynching.
Meanwhile, a large number of people of Barohalia demonstrated before the Dhupguri police station demanding that the three arrested be released and claimed that the deceased were cattle thieves.
Rapid Action Force (RAF) and a huge contingent of police were deployed there.