Jamshedpur, Oct 8 (PTI) Five people were sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Jharkhand’s East Singhbhum district on Wednesday in the 2017 lynching of four persons in Jamshedpur on suspicion that they were “child lifters”.

The incident had happened on May 18, 2017, at Nagadih in the Bagbeda police station area. Vikash Verma, his brother Gautam Verma, their grandmother Ramsakhi Devi and one Gangesh Gupta were beaten to death by a mob.

Eight cases were lodged in connection with the incident, and in one of those cases, five people were convicted on September 25, and 20 were acquitted by the court of Additional District Judge-1 Vimlesh Kumar Sahay. Show Full Article

A total of 29 people were named in the FIR, and four are still at large.

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