Written by: Express News Service
2 min readChandigarhApr 8, 2014 02:14 PM IST
First published on: Sep 10, 2013 at 04:00 AM IST
An elderly man,in his late 60s,was allegedly mistaken as a member of the Kala-Kachcha gang and beaten to death by villagers in Rohtak district of Haryana late on Sunday night.
Earlier,the Haryana Police had issued several clarifications and appeals denying the presence of any such gang in the state. Despite that,people have developed a fear of the ‘gang’.
The deceased was yet to be identified.
The Rohtak police have registered a murder case against a group of people and said the accused will be arrested soon.
The incident took place in Rohtak’s Muradpur Tekna village during the intervening night of September 8-9. According to the police,they received information about a man being “caught by villagers”. However,by the time police reached the spot,the villagers had already beaten him to death.
The police also claimed to have intercepted the vehicle in which a few youths of the village had allegedly brought the elderly man to the village,where he was beaten.
“I do not know the details of the incident. I cannot say if the man belonged to any gang or was a thief. I do not even know who killed him. The police is unnecessarily harassing the villagers,” said Reshma Devi,sarpanch of the village.
Preliminary investigations revealed that some youths intercepted the aged man,who was allegedly moving around in a suspicious way,near Lehli village and assaulted him. They then pulled him in a car and brought him to the village,where he was again thrashed.
“We have registered a case against a few youngsters of the village. Investigations are on and we will soon arrest all those involved in the murder of the man. He is yet to be identified,” said Rajesh Duggal,ASP,Rohtak.
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