JAISALMER: A

youth was allegedly thrashed to death at a border village in

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over a suspected illicit affair with a married Muslim woman and her unmarried sister. The body of the 24-year-old youth, who is said to be the brother of a local BJP office bearer, was found in a field on Saturday, police said, adding that two persons have been arrested for the fatal assault on Tuesday.

Khetaram Bheel, a resident of Bhinde-ka-Paar village, was allegedly lynched by nearly a dozen men from the neighbouring Mekran- ka-Tala village on the night of July 20. Bheel's family found the body the next day.

Chauhtan police investigating the case arrested two persons - Pathai Khan and Anwar Khan - who are brothers, claimimg the duo was involved in the lynching. Police have detained eight other persons too. However, the woman's husband, who is the main accused, is absconding.

Police said the Dalit man ran a brick kiln on a land that he had taken on lease from the woman's husband, who mostly stayed away from home for work. "Probe revealed that Bheel developed illicit relations with the married woman and later with her unmarried sister," said deputy SP (Chauhtan) Surendra Kumar Prajapat. Bheel was married and has three children. His brother Hira Ram Bheel is the president of BJP's Ramsar Mandal SC/ST Morcha.