According to the complaint filed by the victim's wife, Jayaben Vaniya, her husband was beaten up by the five people as they suspected the couple of committing a theft
Police have arrested five
people for allegedly thrashing to death a 35-year-old Dalit
man suspecting him to be a thief in Gujarat's Rajkot district,
an official said today.
A video of the incident --
purportedly showing two people taking turns to beat the man,
identified as Mukesh Vaniya, a ragpicker, with a stick while another
person holding him by a rope tied to his waist -- has gone viral on
the social media.
Based on the video, the
police arrested the five people.
"A man who used to
collect garbage was beaten up by some people at the Radadiya
Industries compound near Shapar town yesterday. The factory owner
accused him and his wife of theft," Rajkot (rural) in-charge
superintendent of police Shruti S Mehta said.
The victim's wife lodged a
complaint at the Shapar-Veraval police station in Rajkot last
evening, accusing the five people of thrashing her husband following
which he died, Mehta said.
"We have arrested the
five people based on the video that purportedly showed the victim
being beaten up. An investigation is underway," she said.
According to the complaint
filed by the victim's wife, Jayaben Vaniya, her husband was beaten up
by the five people as they suspected the couple of committing a
theft.
The couple was picking
garbage near the Radadiya Industries, located in the Gujarat
Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) area, when they were held
and then beaten up by the accused.
Mukesh died while being
taken to the government hospital in Rajkot, an official at the
Shapar-Veraval police station said.
An FIR was lodged under
sections 302 (murder) and 308 (culpable homicide) of the IPC, he
said.
Four of the arrested
persons were identified as Chirag Patel, Divyesh Patel, Jaysukh
Radadiya and Tejas Zala.
Jaysukh Radadiya is the
owner of the factory where the incident allegedly took place while
the others are his friends, according to the police.
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