Bihar: Youth lynched on robbery suspicion in Madhubani district

PATNA: A mob allegedly lynched a 21-year-old youth, Santosh Kumar, on suspicion of robbery at Sirkharia village in Madhubani district on Thursday morning. He was a resident of Jhanjharpur block.

According to sources, police arrested three people — Ramudgar Mahto (38), his wife Manju Devi (34), and sister-in-law

Rekha Devi

(40) — in connection with the death of the youth.

Sudhira Devi

, the deceased’s sister, filed a case against the trio at Ardia OP.

Sources claimed that the youth was beaten brutally and imprisoned at Mahto’s house on suspicion of robbery.

DSP Ashish Anand stated that wound marks were visible on the deceased’s hands, legs, and face. “Three individuals have been arrested in connection with this case,” he added.

Case against ACS: K K Pathak, the prohibition, excise and registration department’s additional chief secretary, has become embroiled in a new controversy. A case against him has been filed in a Muzaffarpur court in connection with the alleged death of a lawyer as a result of harassment.

The case concerns the death of Bajrang Prasad, Muzaffarpur’s special public prosecutor for prohibition. Advocate

Sushil Kumar Singh

, who has filed a complaint in this matter with the court, claimed that Pathak mentally harassed the deceased advocate. Apart from him, this complaint charges home secretary Jitendra Srivastava, special secretary Jyoti Swaroop Srivastava, and prosecution director

Prabhunath Singh

with culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Police team attacked: A group of people attacked a police team that was attempting to arrest an accused in a murder case in Shamsher Nagar village under the Daudnagar police station area of Aurangabad district on Thursday evening.