BENGALURU: A fake
WhatsApp video, which has peddled fear for a week by suggesting that a gang from outside
Karnataka was stealing children, claimed its first casualty on Wednesday when a 26-year-old youth was beaten to death by a mob that mistook him for a child-lifter. Police identified the deceased as Kaluram, who was from
Rajasthan, and a likely
paan seller.
Police received an alert at about 1.40pm that a man was being thrashed by a mob in Chamarajpet. The caller said the group who was thrashing the man was shouting that he was a child-lifter. The attackers fled when the police arrived. The victim died while being taken to hospital.