22-year-old lynched in Delhi for stealing Rs 1500
A mob chased and beat a 22-year-old man to death on charges of theft in northwest Delhi on Thursday evening, while crowds — first at a busy market and then at a nearby railway station — stood and watched. The lynching comes after a group of men killed a teen on a running Delhi-Mathura train in June.
The police said Rahul was caught stealing Rs 1,500 from a driver at Azadpur mandi, Asia’s largest wholesale market for fruits and vegetables. The driver caught him, called others, recovered the money and started beating him, while a large number of traders looked on. Rahul somehow managed to wriggle out of their clutches and ran towards Adarsh Nagar railway station, about 200 meters from the market, hoping that passengers or railway security would save him.
But the group of men caught him again and started thrashing him. They fled, leaving him for dead. Nobody intervened at the railway station as well. A person called the police, but only after the attackers had fled.
Rahul, a resident of Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead on arrival. Further details about the victim were not immediately known.
The police said Rahul looked to have …read more