Adding one more gruesome incident to the ongoing mob lynching in the country, a man was beaten up on suspicion of being a child lifter. locals in Ujire town in Belthangady near coastal town of Mangaluru on Thursday beat up a man with a child after growing suspicious of him to be a child-lifter.
However, police interfered at the right time and saved the man and his child. Khalid of Belur has become an unfortunate victim of mob attack adding one more incident of mobocracy following suspicion on him as a child-lifter.
According to police sources the 30-year-old Khalid, a resident of Belur, quarreled with his wife and in a fit of rage took his child along with him and arrived in Ujire on Thursday.
According to eye witnesses Khalid was travelling in an auto with his two-year-old daughter and the daughter was crying as he was scolding and hitting her. Two locals on a bike noticed the crying child, followed the auto and brought it to a halt, and then forced him to step outside. When they confronted him about the child, an annoyed Khalid refused to tell them anything, which resulted in the two men branding him as a child-abductor and beating him up. It was reported that he was crying and saying that it was his own child. By the time police arrived to disperse the crowd he was beaten up by the mob. The police freed Khalid and the child and took them to the police station to investigate the incident. They found out after speaking to his wife Shameema that he was carrying his own child.
After this, he was asked to go. The police then reportedly spoke to the locals and counselled them about not believing fake WhatsApp forwards.
For the past few months country has been witnessing a spurt in mob lynching taking law into their hands in which innocent people have been mistaken for child-abductors and beaten to death.
Recently, in Chennai, two labourers attacked by a mob were rescued in the nick of time. Many of the recent incidents of violence and lynchings have been triggered by audio, video and text messages doing the rounds on WhatsApp. In May, a 26-year-old labourer was lynched in Bengaluru on the suspicion of being a child-lifter.