Guwahati: Two youths from Guwahati on a pleasure trip to picturesque Karbi Anglong hills district in central Assam were lynched by a mob suspecting them to be childlifters.
The mob, as seen in the video, looked reluctant to listen their plea and continued beating Nilotpal and his friend Abhijit Nath, who were working as sound engineer in Goa, with bamboo sticks and kicks.
The SUV in which they were traveling was also badly damaged in the attack by the mob. The incident happened at around 7.40 pm on Friday at Kangthilangso, Dengaon under Dokmoka Police station. While on their way earlier in the day, Nilotpal and Abhijit had asked some local villagers about the directions to Kangthilangso village where they had gone for the day. According to reports, some villagers suspected them to be childlifters and alerted others in the area. In the evening when they were returning home, the villagers stopped them and lynched.
According to reports in local media, when one friend of Nilotpal from Guwahati had called him at around 8 pm on Friday, a different person picked up the phone and said that Nilotpal has been killed.
Assam DGP Kula Saikia told reporters that police have already identified the people involved in the lynching from the video being circulated in the social sites but no arrest has been made so far.
