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JALANDHAR: A mob lynched a 39-year-old man after he allegedly raped an 11-year-old girl in Rama Mandi area of Jalandhar on Sunday afternoon. The man was alive when the police rescued him from the mob but he succumbed to injuries on the way to the civil hospital.

According to police, the man, in an inebriated condition, barged into his neighbour’s one-room house when the girl was alone and committed the crime. The girl’s parents, who are from Nepal , were at work at the time of the crime.

People in the neighbourhood were alerted by the girl’s cries. When they entered the house, the girl was bleeding profusely and the accused was still inside the house. Neighbours caught him and beat him black and blue, police said.

“The girl was in a bad shape when people caught and thrashed the accused. He was drunk when he raped the girl. When police reached there, the man was in a bad state. Cops rushed the girl and the accused to the civil hospital but he died on the way,” said ACP (central) Harsimrat Singh .

A video of the crime scene after the arrival of police showed some cops giving the accused water to drink. It also showed him walking to the police vehicle with the support of two police personnel. However, he died in a few minutes on the way to hospital, police said, adding that a case under IPC Section 376 ( rape ) and under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act has been filed against the deceased. However, police have not filed charges against the mob yet.

The deceased was identified by his Aadhaar card and the police are trying to contact his family as he was living alone in Jalandhar.

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