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Guwahati : Assam police have arrested one more person in connection with the mob lynching incident happened on August 15 early morning at Sootea area in northern Assam’s Biswanath district where a person was beaten to death and three others injured in mob attack on suspicion of being cattle thieves.
According to the reports, Biswanath district police on Tuesday had arrested a person named Dinesh Pator, he is a secretary of Village Defence Party.
Earlier, police had arrested 13 persons in connection with the lynching incident.
On August 15 morning, a group of men intercepted an auto van at 15 number line of Diplonga tea estate and brutally assaulted four persons on suspicion of being cattle thieves.
One among the four was died in the mob attack and three others were received severe injuries.
Following the incident, police had registered two cases at Sootea police station.
Biswanath district Superintendent of Police (SP) Diganta Kumar Choudhury said that, police had already registered two cases in connection with the incident and investigation is going on.
It is to be mentioned that, on June 8 last, two youths from Guwahati were beaten to death by a mob in the name of child traffickers at Panjuri village under Dokmoka police station in Karbi Anglong district.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
