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Lynched bodies eaten by dogs

8 of 10 alleged thieves, who were lynched by a mob in Vaishali 3 days ago, didn't get a proper cremation as their partially-burnt bodies were dumped into the Ganges.

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HAJIPUR,BIHAR: After becoming victims of vigilant justice, eight of ten alleged thieves, who were lynched by a mob in Vaishali three days ago, did not get a proper cremation as their partially-burnt bodies were dumped into the Ganges.
    
Taking a serious view of the lapse in disposal of the bodies, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar transferred the District Magistrate Lalan Singh and Superintendent of Police Anupama Nilekar and suspended two officials.
     
The bodies were today seen eaten by dogs after they surfaced in the river water near Konharaghat here where their mass funeral were performed.
    
Official sources said that after the lynching at Rajapakar village on September 13 the bodies were cremated in the presence of officials of Hajipur district the next day.
    
But the officials did not wait till the disposal of the bodies and had thrown them into the river barely minutes after their funeral pyres were lit by a boy named Vikranta, who lost his father Sulten and his uncle Multen in the mob violence, the sources said.
    
District welfare officer Jagdish Bahadur Mathur and Hajipur town police station officer-in-charge R K Singh were sent to Konharaghat to supervise the cremation, Vaishali district magistrate Lalan Singh and police superintendent Anupama Nilekar said.
     
As the TV channels beamed the horrific sight of the dogs feeding on the bodies, the district administration cremated afresh the remains of the eight bodies this time in the presence of the district magistrate and the police superintendent.
    
An angry Chief Minister ordered the transfer of both the DM and the SP and suspension of Mathur and Singh.
     
"The Chief Minister has taken strong exception to the lapse committed by the Vaishali district authorities in connection with the disposal of the bodies of the suspected thieves. He is pained to come to know that some of the bodies of those cremated in Hajipur were seen being gorged on by
stray dogs,'' an official said.
      
On coming to know about it, Kumar summoned Chief Secretary A K Choudhary and Director General of Police and ordered them to immediately remove Vaishali DM and SP, he said.
     
Pratibha Verma, state health department joint secretary, was posted as the new district magistrate of Vaishali and Lalan Singh was asked to report to the state headquarters, according to a notification issued by the state administrative reforms and personnel department.
    
Paras Nath replaced Nilekar as the new SP, the sources said.
    
Giving a new twist to the lynching of 10 suspected burglars, the state government had yesterday said the CID investigation into the incident indicated that the killing was not on account of an alleged incident of theft.

 

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