BENGALURU: Residents of
Doddenakundi tied a 45-year-old man to an electric pole and thrashed him, suspecting him to be a child-lifter, before handing him over to police on Saturday. The man, Chandrakumar, is a resident of
Assam.
As many as 22 people have been lynched across the country on the basis of a fake
WhatsApp message about
child lifting.
Residents said they saw Chandrakumar roaming suspiciously and one couple said he tried to abduct their child. Police are probing the allegations.
