NEW DELHI: An
elderly woman was thrashed here by people who suspected that she had snatched someone's gold chain, police said on Thursday.
Joint Commissioner of Police Sagarpreet Hooda said the incident occurred on Wednesday evening in northwest Delhi's
Swaroop Nagar.
"During the weekly
Budh Bazaar, a lady alleged that the victim had taken away her chain," the officer said.
"People who gathered there started beating her. The clothes on the upper part of her body got torn. Later, she was being taken to be handed over to the police, she passed out," he said. He denied that she was paraded naked on the streets.
The chain was not recovered from her. The matter is being investigated.
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