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The dispute is being probed,” said the officer.Sources, however, claim that both were thrashed by the furious mob suspecting them to be child lifters. “I am not sure if it was an incident related to the rumour. BHOPAL: In yet another alleged case of mob fury triggered by WhatsApp rumours, a woman forest officer and a guard were rouged up and taken hostage on the suspicion of being child-lifters in Madhya Pradesh's Singrauli district, police said.Those attacked have been identified as Trusthi Singh and Brijesh Bagri. Jain said police are stepping up their efforts to spread awareness in the region against social media rumours.Rumours of the kind that led to the lynching of two youngsters in Guwahati recently have had MP Police on the tenterhooks as well. On June 18, cops arrived in the nick of time to save two men from a lynch mob in Balaghat.More than 10 people have been rescued from mobs in eastern MP in the past week alone as messages of ‘child lifters’ continue to do the rounds of social media platforms..