Residents beat up 2 men on suspicion of being child lifters

Residents beat up a mentally ill person and a drunk man on suspicion of being child-lifters and then handed them over to police in Banda district, officials said on Thursday. Kalvanganj police outpost in-charge Shalini Singh Bhadauria said a mentally ill person was beaten up by locals in Khutla area on Wednesday after they suspected him to be a child lifter.

The man has been hospitalized and his attackers are being identified. In Pangara village, a drunk man was beaten up by residents on a similar suspicion. Naraini police station house officer Durgvijay Singh said the man suffered injuries. The man is undergoing treatment at the community health center in Naraini. Singh said a policeman trying to save him from the public also suffered minor injuries.