Ranchi April 24 (IANS) A court on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to 10 persons convicted of lynching a person in Bokaro district of Jharkhand in 2017 after suspecting him of kidnapping children.
Tenughat court Judge Gulam Haider handed out the jail terms to the convicts.
On April 4 2017 a mob caught hold of victim Shamsuddin Ansari at Narra village in Chandrapura police station area of the district when he had gone to his in-laws house. He was thrashed brutally following which he died.
Around a dozen fatalities in similar cases were reported from four districts of the state last year.
--IANS
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