A middle-aged woman was allegedly thrashed by a mob on suspicion of child-lifting on Tuesday at Baniadih area in Giridih district, police said. According to the SDPO of Giridih, Jit Wahan Oraon, Lilawati Devi, a resident of Chunjaka village under Muffasil police station limits had gone to Bank of India, Baniadih branch on the day for withdrawing her money when some people mistook her for a child lifter and thrashed her.
The DSP said that the victim was rescued by the police. “A woman left her son with her 8-year-old daughter outside a bank and went to withdraw cash at the bank near Baniadih. The victim, namely Lilawati, who was also near bank saw the boy crying and started playing with him,” said a police official.
“When the mother of the infant saw this, she accused her of being a child-lifter which triggered the violence,” added the police.
Following this, in gruesome incident, a middle-aged woman was allegedly thrashed by a mob on suspicion of child-lifting. While the woman was seen crying and claiming to be innocent, the mob grabbed her hair and kicked her multiple times.
Narrating her ordeal after being rescued by the local police, the woman said, “The people were beating me on suspicion of child-lifting and they even tried to forcefully shave my head. I was lying on the road and they were hitting me.”
The SDPO said that an FIR has been registered in the case and the identification of the culprits is underway.