Do some ground study..She was accused of stealing child & was beaten by your own kind..
Bengal: Mob lynches mentally ill woman after branding her a child trafficker
Police blamed the incident on miscreants who spread rumours about Bangladeshi child traffickers prowling the region. They have promised to act against them as well as the villagers responsible for the mob lynching.
kolkata Updated: Jun 27, 2017 19:38 IST
Sreyasi Pal
Hindustan Times, Berhampore
A video grab of 42-year-old Otera Bibi being manhandled by villagers before her death.(HT Photo)
A mentally challenged woman was lynched on suspicions of child trafficking at Sekendra village in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Tuesday. This is the most recent in a string of mob lynchings witnessed across the country over the last few months.
The victim, 42-year-old Otera Bibi, had been undergoing psychiatric treatment for over a year. She was a resident of Mithipur-Pananagar village, located about seven km from Sekendra.
On June 16, HT had reported about rumours of child-traffickers in nearby Jharkhand triggering panic in the state’s West Midnapore, Jhargram and Purulia districts. Sekendra is located about 30 km from the Jharkhand border.
The incident occurred around 3 am on Tuesday, when a villager noticed Otera entering the house of one Dilip Ghosh with something in her hand. Word spread that the woman had come bearing chloroform to abduct Khushi, Ghosh’s minor daughter. A mob rushed into the house and caught her “red-handed”.
“The villagers started beating the woman mercilessly. She was trying to say something, but we couldn’t understand it. In fact, her incoherent speech fuelled suspicions that she was a trafficker from Bangladesh. Some youngsters ripped off the woman’s clothes and partly tonsured her. Then they tied her to a tractor and beat her for three hours,” a local resident told HT on the condition of anonymity.
