On the night of 11 November, Monday, Mohammad Jamal was lynched by four men while he was on his way to sell cows about thirty kilometers from Katihar in eastern Bihar.

Jamal was taken to a government hospital where he was declared dead the same night.

The Quint confirmed that Jamal was with his uncle and cousin brother with cows to sell, when they were tracked and stopped by four men at Labha enroute West Bengal. Sagar Yadav, a local goon, and three members of his family, asked them to pay money to use the road for cattle transport.

While Jamal’s cousin and uncle broke their grip and ran away, Jamal was brutally beaten up by the goons.