A 38-year-old Dalit man was lynched in Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, after being accused of theft amid rumours of “drone gangs” on the prowl. The killing has triggered a political storm, with the Congress blaming the BJP government for a breakdown of law and order. With severe head injuries, belt marks on the chest and bruises all over, eyewitnesses say, the body of the Dalit from Fatehpur district was found abandoned near a railway track where his killers had apparently left him in an unconscious state the previous day.

Hariom Valmiki was travelling to his in-laws’ village on the Unchahar–Dalmaun road when a group of locals reportedly stopped him and accused him of being part of a gang that allegedly uses drones to scout homes before carrying out thefts or abductions. He told them he was onl

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