Summary:
As his child refused to come with him, the people mistook the man for a child lifter and assaulted him. Mandya: A man, who had come to meet his son in Karnataka’s Mandya district was thrashed by a mob over suspicion of being a child lifter. The victim, who was a divorcee, had come to meet his son and asked him to come with him. Earlier on July 13, a man was lynched to death and two got severely injured after a mob attacked them on suspicion of being child-traffickers in Karnataka’s Bidar district. Earlier today, Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Lok Sabha termed mob lynching incidents “unfortunate” and underscored that social media is being misused to spread fake news..