Man thrashed on child theft suspicion

Lucknow: Residents of Shastrinagar in Bazaarkhala mistook a rickshaw puller as a child lifter and thrashed him on Saturday night. Similar incidents were reported in Kakori and Saadatganj last month. A video of the incident also went viral on social media.A police team rescued the rickshaw puller, Guddu, and took him to hospital.According to locals, two children were sitting on Guddu’s rickshaw. Guddu rode the rickshaw without seeing the children. When they started crying out of fear, the residents thought Guddu was a child lifter and thrashed him. SHO, Bazaarkhala, Vinod Yadav said prima facie Guddu was in a drunken state.