Even as the Union Government struggles to choose an option between amending the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and framing a new law to prevent the increasing incidents of mob lynching across the country, as directed by the Supreme Court, yet another person, this time in Singrauli in Madhya Padhya has allegedly been lynched to death.

The victim has been identified as a middle-aged mentally challenged woman.

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The incident, according to the Singrauli police, occured in the Morwa area on Saturday after a WhatsApp rumour that suspected the victim to be a child-lifter started circulating in the area.



According to the police, the mentally challenged victim was seen in the area for the past six months. The victim's body was recovered from the forest close to the spot of the incident on Sunday afternoon. "We got information about a dead body being dumped in the forest on Sunday morning following which a team was sent to the spot. The injuries on the body suggested that she had been lynched," police said.

Police have taken statements of the people from the area and and registered a murder case against unidentified people.



On the basis of these statements, police have detained six people and they are likely to be arrested today.

In a similar incident, two forest officilas were attacked by a mob on the basis of similar WhatsApp rumours on June 29 but police intervention on time saved their lives.

"We are trying to get to the base of it and also find out who started the WhatsApp rumour. The person who started the message and those who contributed in making it viral by circulating it would be booked under the relevant sections of IPC," police said.

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