Guwahati: In a shocking incident that, two youths hailing from Guwahati became victims of fake social media reports on child kidnapping (locally known as xupadhora) in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district on Friday night.
According to the reports, the youths were beaten to death by locals in the name of child kidnapper (xupadhora) at Panjuri Kacharigaon village near Kangthailangso under Dokmoka police station in the hill district on Friday night.
Nilotpal Das and Abhijit Nath went for a vacation to Kangthailangso area in Karbi Anglong district on Friday.
But, in the evening, locals had suspected them to be child abductors and gheraoed their vehicle and the youths were brutally beaten up by some people.
In the video, the youths had appealed the locals that, they are assamese, not child kidnapper. But locals didn’t listen their appeal and brutally beat them.
The locals had also damaged the vehicle used by the youths.
The youths had succumbed their injuries on spot.
Later, Dokmoka police had recovered the bodies.
The incident happened as a result of some fake news and its circulation in social media.
According to the reports, Nilotpal Das hailing from the capital city of Assam was a sound engineer and worked with various music albums, bollywood movies.
Meanwhile, Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal ordered Assam police ADGP Mukesh Agarwala to rush the spot and take stern action against the culprits.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
