AGARTALA, July 3 - A suspected cattle lifter was lynched in a remote tribal hamlet near the Indo-Bangla border in Dhalai district, a senior police officer said on Wednesday.
Deputy Inspector General of Police Arindam Nath said a man was lynched by a group of villagers on suspicion of being a cattle lifter at Noarampara, under the jurisdiction of the Raishyabari Police Station on Tuesday night.
The officer-in-charge of the Raisyabari Police Station, Suleman Reang, said, �Villagers spotted one person trying to lift cattle from a house. They caught the suspected cattle lifter and beat him up. We reached the spot and rescued the person, who later succumbed to his injuries in a hospital,� Reang said.
The deceased was identified as Budhi Kumar Tripura (36), a resident of Manyakumarpara village, the police said. � PTI
