A 23-year-old man was lynched by a mob in eastern Assam’s Jorhat district on May 29, a week after a middle-aged vegetable vendor was killed in a similar incident in Kamrup district. According to eyewitnesses, the incident happened after an accident on a road to a picnic spot through the Gabharu Parbat Tea Estate close to the border with Nagaland. Also Read 5 men lynch vegetable vendorMr. Gogoi and his friend Aditya Das, riding a two-wheeler, were stopped from going to the picnic spot by the tea estate’s watchmen. “Our two-wheeler skidded and the accident happened in front of the garden’s tea factory. A similar incident happened on May 23 after a bicycle-borne vegetable vendor allegedly grazed a vehicle at Monahkuchi village near Kamrup district’s Hajo, about 35 km northwest of Guwahati.

Source: The Hindu May 31, 2020 12:14 UTC