Assam: 20 convicted in 2018 mob lynching case
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A special court in Assam on Monday convicted 20 persons and acquitted 25 others in the 2018 mob lynching of two men, PTI reported.
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They were killed by a mob that had accused them of being child abductors.
The sentence will be pronounced on Friday.
The incident had taken place in June 2018 when the two men from Guwahati, 29-year-old Nilotpal Das and 30-year-old Abhijeet Nath, went to Kangthilangso waterfall in Karbi Anglong.
While they were returning, a group of villagers stopped their vehicle at Panjuri, dragged them out and beat them to death. In a video widely shared on social media at the time, Das and Nath could be heard telling the mob that they were not child abductors but were visiting Karbi Anglong, PTI reported.
The incident had taken place amid rumours of incidents of children being abducted spreading on social media.
On Monday, Nagaon District Sessions Judge DJ Mahanta convicted 20 of the 45 persons accused in the case under several sections of the Indian Penal Code, including murder committed by one or more members of an unlawful assembly, rioting and voluntarily causing hurt, PTI reported.
The judge said that the prosecution had failed to prove its case against the 25 others who had also been arrested in the case and were in jail. Mahanta ordered...