Mob justices took an ugly turn again in Aurangabad as two cows got accidentally electrocuted.
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Aurangabad: A mob damaged staff vehicles and vandalized the office Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) after two cows died of electrocution a few days ago. The city police registered a case against unidentified suspects.
“The MIDC Cidco police have arrested two suspects — identified as Pramod Wadekar and Ganesh Gaikwad — on charges of assaulting a lineman. The accused after being produced before the court on Tuesday have been sent to two-day police custody. “A manhunt has been launched for another two suspects who along with the arrested duo allegedly played a key role in assaulting the lineman and ransacking the state power utility office. Others, who were part of the mob, are yet to be identified,” a police officer said,” reported Times of India.
The report added that on Sunday evening, due to heavy rainfall and strong winds, a live wire broke and fell on a pole situated near Shivaji statue in Naregaon area. “A cow died of electrocution after coming in touch with the pole. MIDC Cidco police inspector Surendra Malale said, “After the cow got electrocuted, the MSEDCL staffer was summoned and power supply to the pole was stopped. Later, the carcass was sent for autopsy.” He added, “Nobody knows as to who came and reconnected the power supply to the pole resulting in the death of another cow due to which the locals got infuriated and reached out to the MSEDCL office and started vandalising the office.” Sources informed that the locals were upset with the fact that power supply to the pole was turned on without even checking if the current is still passing through the pole. An officer privy to the investigation said the outrage seems to be a spontaneous as the cows belonged to a poor man and they were his only source of income,” the report added.
Mob Justice in Aurangabad
A woman, identified as Puja Gavai from Ranjangaon village, was assaulted by a mob in Avinash Colony, Valuj in Aurangabad on allegations of being a child lifter. A video of an attack on her was doing the rounds on Whatsapp on June 15. Two men were attacked by a mob on the same day over suspicion of theft near Kasambari Dargah in Padegaon about 8 km from the city. The victims – Vikramnath Lalunath, 38, and Mohan Nath Bairaonath, 35, are residents of Madhya Pradesh. “We came to beg. And because it’s Ramzan, we dressed up in costumes of Laila and Majnu. Some people mistook us to be thieves,” they told ANI. “Both of them earn their living by begging as ‘behrupiya’ (who entertain people by assuming different roles.) Suspecting them to be thieves or dacoits, the villagers thrashed them for nearly three hours,” a police official told PTI.
Both the incidents happened after two men were lynched on the suspicion of robbery on June 8. “The deceased are Shivaji Shinde (45), from Mukundwadi in Aurangabad district, and Bharat Sonawane (30) of Mitmita, Aurangabad. Officials said Shinde belonged to the Pardhi tribe and Sonawane was a Bhil,” reported The Indian Express.