Woman Intern From Delhi Among 2 Assaulted By Mob Over Child-Lifting Rumours In Odisha; 16 Arrested

Mob attacks two NGO workers in Odisha's Rayagada; 21 held - OrissaPOST

Rayagada: A mob attacked two NGO workers, including a woman, in Odisha’s Rayagada district, assuming them to be members of a child-lifting gang, police said Friday. According to the police, the victims, who were residents of outside Odisha, were travelling from Daringbadi to Thuamul Rampur block in Kalahandi, a neighbouring district of Rayagada. While passing through Kandulguda village under Dhamunipanga panchayat under Kalyansinghpur police sta…

Woman Intern From Delhi Among 2 Assaulted By Mob Over Child-Lifting Rumours In Odisha; 16 Arrested

Rayagada: Police have arrested 16 people in connection with an alleged vigilante violence fuelled by misinformation in which a young woman from Delhi and her male colleague from Gujarat were brutally assaulted by a mob in Odisha’s Rayagada district on the night of June 16. The locals had mistakenly suspected them of being child-lifters. The victims, both in their early twenties and working under fellowship programmes with voluntary organisations…