Three from Bangladesh lynched in Assam for ‘cattle smuggling’
4 escaped, say police; second incident in less than 2 months
Three Bangladeshi nationals alleged to be cattle smugglers were lynched by locals in southern Assam’s Karimganj district around midnight on July 18. Four others from across the border escaped. Kumar Sanjit Krishna, the district’s Superintendent of Police, said the incident happened at the Bogrijan tea estate under the Patharkandi police station near the 134 Battalion of the Border Security Force’s E Company. The area is close to the border and about 1.5 km from the nearest police outpost. “On inquiry, it was revealed that the said Bangladeshi nationals crossed the border with a motive to steal cows from the Bogrijan area. They were lynched by people yet to be identified,” he told The Hindu from district headquarters Karimganj on Sunday. A few items recovered from the three included Bangladeshmade biscuits and bread, rope, bag, wires and fencecutters, Mr. Krishna said. The police recovered the bodies of the three men and a process was on to hand them over to the Bangladeshi authorities via the Border Security Force. Similar incident in June This was the second such incident in the district in less than two months. On June 1, a 43yearold Bangladeshi national was lynched at the Putni tea estate, situated about 3 km from the border. The man was identified as Ranjit Munda and the police quoted locals as saying that he had come with five others — three Bangladeshis and two Indians — to steal cows. Verification of the man’s identity revealed that he was from the Sonaroopa tea estate on the other side of the fence. The body was later handed over to the Border Guards Bangladesh.
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