Ten individuals have been arrested in Navsari on Monday a day after they allegedly assaulted a farmer after tying him in opposition to a pole over theft suspicion, stated police. The accused allegedly additionally filmed the act and broadly shared the video of the brutal assault, officers added. That is yet one more incident in a collection of comparable assaults in Gujarat amid prevailing rumours of the motion of dacoits.
In one other incident final week, a person was killed and one other was injured in a mob assault in Vadodara. Police stated eight individuals have been arrested within the homicide case.
On Sunday, at round 1 am, a farmer, Lakhan Gurjar, was out within the Vijalpore space the place the accused had allegedly gathered close to a temple.
Gurjar stated that the accused requested him a number of questions on his motion, after which started abusing him. They then allegedly tied him to a pole and thrashed him with a stick, abused him and accused him of being a thief. Based mostly on the video of the incident that was shared on social media, police nabbed 10 accused and arrested them on Monday.
Officers of the Navsari district police have additionally appealed to the residents to not take legislation into their palms over prevailing rumours of dacoit assaults and urged residents to show in any suspects to the police.
The incident comes shut on the heels of a mob assault in Vadodara’s Warasiya highway space through which a man was killed and one other was injured over suspicion of theft.
The Vadodara metropolis police on Sunday arrested eight accused within the case of homicide and mob lynching.
The Vadodara metropolis police additionally booked a case of theft in opposition to three males, together with the deceased, Sehbaaz Khan Salim Khan Pathan, 21, and his injured confederate Ali Imran Tiliyawala, 20, in addition to Sahil Sajid Shaikh, 20, who had escaped from the spot the place the mob had cornered Pathan and Tiliyawala.
In accordance with the investigating officers, the three males had arrived within the space with the alleged intention to commit theft and have been additionally armed with weapons used for a housebreak.
The accused have been allegedly driving a stolen bike and the proprietor of the bike had earlier approached police to lodge a criticism.
Shaikh, who had escaped the mob assault, has been arrested within the case of theft whereas Tiliyawala is present process remedy.
On Saturday, the Raopura police station in Vadodara additionally registered two complaints of an autorickshaw in addition to a labourer, who had been assaulted by the previous on suspicion of theft.
In accordance with police, Bharat Parmar, the labourer, lodged a criticism that he had allegedly been attacked by two males when he sat in a stationary auto rickshaw in Dandia Bazar space on Saturday when he had stepped out looking for work for every day wages.
Nayan Kahar, the auto rickshaw driver, alongside together with his father Ashok had accosted Parmar and thrashed him earlier than turning him in on the Raopura police station. Kahar, in his criticism, had stated that Parmar was attempting to steal the cash stored within the utility field of the rickshaw.
An official of Vadodara Police stated that on verifying his credentials, Parmar was not discovered to have any earlier legal file.
