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Local Congress leader, others thrash youth in Alwar

Alwar: A local Congress leader in Alwar has landed in a soup after a video of him thrashing a youth on allegation of eve teasing went viral on social media on Saturday.

The Kherli police station have registered an FIR based on the video evidence and have detained five persons in the case. The video showed Kherli’s Congress block president, Kailash Meena and several others thrashing the youth with sticks.

The youth was critically injured and has been shifted to the trauma ward of Alwar hospital. “The mob accused the youth of eve teasing and roughed him up near a petrol pump. There were several persons involved in thrashing the youth. We have detained some persons and efforts are being made to identify others,” said an official.

In the video, the youth, whose age could not be confirmed by the police, was showed pleading the mob to be let off. But the frenzied mob of villagers which included Meena, rained blows on the youth. He was knocked unconscious and then taken to the hospital for treatment. His condition is stated to be out of danger and the police are yet to record his statements.

The sources said that the police learnt about the incident only when the video of the vigilantism went viral on social media. SHO Kherli Sachin Sharma said that the matter is under investigation. Alwar has been long notorious for incidents of mob violence and vigilante justice. The police, after series of mob lynching incidents, had warned locals to refrain from taking law into their hands, but the situation does not seem to have changed on the ground.

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