Assam: One Man Killed, Another Injured in Mob Attack in Jorhat District

New Delhi: In yet another mob lynching, a young man was killed in Assam’s Jorhat district while another was severely injured and is undergoing treatment at a local hospital.

The local police have so far arrested five persons in the case.

The incident took place on May 29 and come to light just days after a

vegetable vendor lost his life due to severe beating by a group of five persons in the state’s Kamrup district. They attacked him after his bicycle hit a car that two of the accused were in.

A May 31 report in the Assamese news channel NewsLive said two young men – Debasish Gogoi and Aditya Das – were on a motorbike on May 29, returning from Gabharu Parbat, a tourist site near the Mariani area of the district. Their vehicle met with a minor accident near the Gabharu tea estate and hit two women belonging to the tea garden community. According to the report, around 50 people, said to be workers of the tea garden, gathered at the spot thereafter and began beating the young men.

However, speaking to the local news channel Prag News, Debasish’s father said there were a crowd of about 200 to 300 people. “On getting to know that my son was being beaten up, I and my daughter rushed in our car to the spot. I was not allowed to get out of the car by the mob, threatening to kill me too if I did. But my daughter went out and tried reaching her brother. They threatened to attack her too but she managed to reach him,” the father said. They thereafter rushed him and Aditya to the Jorhat civil hospital where he succumbed to injuries on May 31.

Adiya told NewsLive that the mob, aside from beating the two, also snatched their mobile phones.