Mumbai: A 32-year-old bus driver was mistaken to be a thief and was thrashed by a group of people in Palghar. Later, he succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Gujarat, police informed on Tuesday.
The victim, Ranjit Pandey, was standing near a bus in Boisar area on August 21 when some people suspected that he intended to steal the vehicle’s battery and deflate its tyres.
They then caught hold of Pandey and thrashed him severely, he said. The victim, who was badly injured, was rushed to a local hospital and was later shifted to a hospital in Valsad in the state of Gujarat where he died on Sunday, Katkar added.
The Boisar police booked six people – Anwar Garagewalla, his brother Mintu, two accomplices and two friends of the latter – under Indian Penal Code sections 302 (murder), 143, 149 (unlawful assembly) and 147 (rioting) on Monday.
Katkar further said that no arrest has been made in this case, so far. Several incidents of mob fury are said to have been reported from various places across the county in the past few months.
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