National nuggets

Mistaken for thief, Dalit man lynched in UP

RAEBARELI, Oct 6: A 40-year-old Dalit man was allegedly lynched by villagers who mistook him for a thief during a night vigil amid rumours that a gang was using drones for surveillance to mark houses for robberies, police said on Monday.Five persons have been arrested in the case and three police personnel have been suspended for alleged negligence. On Wednesday night, some villagers became suspicious after seeing a man moving near the Jamunapur crossing and started questioning him, the police said. When the victim failed to respond to their queries, the villagers allegedly thrashed him brutally, suspecting him of being a thief.Eyewitnesses told the police that the mob dragged the victim and left him there in a critical condition.On Thursday morning, villagers found his body lying near the railway track.His clothes were torn, and there were multiple injury marks on his body.The police said by the time they reached the spot, the man was lying in a pool of blood and had succumbed to his injuries. (PTI)

3 killed, 8 injured in bike-SUV collision

SOLAPUR, Oct 6: Three persons were killed and eight others sustained injuries after a motorcycle collided with an SUV in Maharashtra’s Solapur district.Amotorcycle carrying three people collided with an SUV, killing the riders.The impact of the collision caused the SUV to flip a couple of times and crash on the side of the road, the official said.Hanumant Keru Falfale (35),Kanchan Keru Falfale (30) and Swati Sharad Kashid (25) died, while eight persons travelling in the SUV sustained injuries. (PTI)

BSF official dies while stopping cattle smuggling along border

MALDA/KOLKATA, Oct 6: A 59-year-old Border Security Force inspector died while thwarting a cattle smuggling bid along the international border with Bangladesh in West Bengal.A Court of Inquiry (CoI) has been ordered into the incident which occurred around midnight on October 4.BSF inspector Kapil Deo Singh was leading an ambush party when the troops saw cattle smugglers trying to push buffaloes from India to Bangladesh, they said.The troops fired three non-lethal rounds from their pump action guns to stop the smugglers, who attacked the security personnel with sharp weapons like a ‘dah’ (large knife) and sticks, according to officials.Inspector Singh, was chasing the smugglers when he slipped in the marshy and water-logged terrain and fell unconscious. He was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead, they said.(PTI)