Assam: Youth Beaten to Death by Suspected Goat Thieves

LAKHIMPUR: In what is being called a very shocking incident, a local youth of Lakhimpur was reportedly murdered by goat thieves active in the region.

The incident took place in the Gubarisali locality of Lakhimpur on Friday night. According to local reports, a gang of goat thieves is active in the region and the youth followed them in an attempt to nab them. However, they noticed him following them and beat him to death before dumping his dead body near the Ranganadi River.

The dead body was noticed by local people on the morning of Saturday. The body was identified as one Pranab Saikia and a motorcycle registered to one Amina Khatun was also recovered at the location.

Local people roughed up four people who were accused of stealing goats from the villagers using a private passenger vehicle. People also damaged a vehicle that the four accused were travelling in. According to local people of the Borjarani village located on the Assam - Arunachal Pradesh border have been facing problems regarding the stealing of domestic goats for a long time. Goats tied up for grazing were stolen and even those kept in the brans were not safe from these thieves. They had raised complaints with the local Tinisuti Police Station but to no avail.

But this time some of the villagers of the Borjarani village saw them catch a goat and put it inside their vehicle. Out of anger, the villagers then stopped the vehicle and roughed up the four accused, They also damaged the Hyundai vehicle bearing registration number AS 02 T 3945. The accused tried to flee but were apprehended by the locals. They handed over the accused to the police officials at the Tinisuti Police Station.

They were able to recover two goats from the vehicle. The identity of the accused was revealed as Sunti Ali, Anowar, Babu and Nurul belonging to the Siraijonia village of Sootea.

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