Rahul, a resident of Delhi's Jahangirpuri, was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead on arrival. Further details about the victim were not immediately known.
A mob chased and beat a 22-year-old man to death on charges of theft in northwest Delhi on Thursday evening, while crowds — first at a busy market and then at a nearby railway station — stood and watched. The lynching comes after a group of men killed a teen on a running Delhi-Mathura train in June.
The police said Rahul was caught stealing Rs 1,500 from a driver at Azadpur mandi, Asia's largest wholesale market for fruits and vegetables. The driver caught him, called others, recovered the money and started beating him, while a large number of traders looked on. Rahul somehow managed to wriggle out of their clutches and ran towards Adarsh Nagar railway station, about 200 meters from the market, hoping that passengers or railway security would save him.
But the group of men caught him again and started thrashing him. They fled, leaving him for dead. Nobody intervened at the railway station as well. A person called the police, but only after the attackers had fled.
Rahul, a resident of Delhi's Jahangirpuri, was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead on arrival. Further details about the victim were not immediately known.
The police said Rahul looked to have received critical internal injuries that led to his death. "We have conducted raids in nearby areas and markets and rounded up a few men. The questioning led to the arrest of three men, identified as Ravi Kumar, Ravinder Singh and Lalit. Efforts to identify more people involved are being made," said a senior police officer.
On June 22, Junaid, was killed, while his brothers Sakir, 22, and Hashim, 19, besides their friend Moin, 19, were wounded when they were returning to their village Khandavali in Haryana's Ballabgarh after shopping for Eid in Delhi.
The attackers turned on the four, first after a tiff over seats, and then pulled off their skull caps and tugged their beard, yelling they were "anti-nationals" and "beef-eaters". The lynching made national headlines as it came amid an outrage over a wave of attacks on people accused of eating beef or slaughtering cows.
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