In a statement, the Commissioner urged people to hand over persons involved in crime or moving suspiciously in their areas to the police and not to take law into their hands.
Published Date – 3 April 2024, 05:28 PM
Nizamabad: Commissioner of Police Kalmeshwar Singhenavar on Wednesday warned that stringent action would be initiated against people involved in mob lynching.
In a statement, the Commissioner urged people to hand over persons involved in crime or moving suspiciously in their areas to the police and not to take law into their hands.
“In two incidents of mob lynching in the district, people were seriously injured and a person lost his life. In both the cases, several people were sent to jail. Hence I request people not to take law into their hands as they will be in trouble,” he said.
As per law, every person who gets involved in a lynching would be liable for the offence of murder, the Commissioner warned.The advisory was issued in the wake of two incidents that took place in the district in the last few months. In the first incident, one Raju of Khanapur village was beaten to death by the residents, suspecting him to be a child lifter at Gayatrinagar in Nizamabad town on February 14. The police filed a case against four persons in the incident.
In the second incident which took place in January, three workers from Adilabad were caught at Navipet weekly market and beaten by a group of people mistaking them for child lifters. Later it was found that they were innocent and that they had no link with child lifting gangs. eom
