Bhopal: In a gruesome incident, a mob of around 200 persons attacked seven outsiders in a village of Dhar district over alleged suspicion of child theft. One of those injured died during treatment in district hospital. The police prima facie called it dubious money deal as the reason behind the outrageous incident. The incident has been reported from village Borlai under Manawar tehsil of Dhar district, around 60 km from Indore.
On the suspicion of child lifting, a mob of around 200 surrounded a group of seven men who had come to the village and attacked them with sticks and stones. The mob beat them mercilessly inflicting grievous injuries on them. Later, the police reached the spot and hospitalised all of them and one of them was referred to Indore and was declared brought dead at MY Hospital in Indore. Senior police officers reached the village and started a probe into the incident.
An officer involved in the probe said the dispute among the visitors and some locals was apparently over a money transaction and the locals turned it into a child lifting rumours. One of the injured told that five local villagers worked as labourers with them and had taken Rs 50,000 each. On Wednesday, they called us and asked us to collect money from the village and as soon as we landed in the village the locals started pelting stones with us and as we fled to save lives, they started shouting that we were child lifters, the injured man added.
The injured men also claimed that before going to village Borlai, they had informed Tirla police station where the officers asked us to reach the village and collect money.
