Banihal (J&K), July 23: An 80-year-old man was on Monday lynched by an agitated mob in Jammu and Kashmir’s Banihal. The mob attacked Hamid Sheikh after someone claimed that he was carrying a buffalo for slaughter. According to the reports, the claims were later proved to be just a rumour”. Also Read - Sonam Kapoor Shares Her Struggle With PCOS, Gives Tips And Hacks to Curb It

Hamid Sheikh was taken to a local hospital where he is currently been treated for his injuries. The victim received injuries on his face and hands. The Banihal incident has come hours after a mentally-challenged woman was lynched to death in Madhya Pradesh’s Singrauli on the suspicion of her being a child-lifter. Also Read - Bollywood Drug Scandal: WhatsApp Gives Clarification on Security After NCB Retrieves Chats

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The incident occurred after a WhatsApp rumour on child-lifters roaming the area went viral. The victim was being seen in the Morwa area for the last six months. “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.

On Saturday, a 28-year-old man was beaten to death by suspected cow vigilantes in Rajasthan’s Alwar district. Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje condemned the Friday night incident in which some villagers caught and beat up Rakbar Khan, suspecting him to be a cow smuggler.

As more details, such as police waited for more than three hours before taking Rakbar Khan to a hospital for treatment, have emerged in the Alwar mob lynching case, the Rajasthan Police formed a high-level team to probe the reasons for the alleged delay. The team has been asked to probe why if the policemen reached the site at 1 a.m., the victim was taken to the hospital only at 4 a.m., said a police official.

It is alleged that the policemen stopped on the way to have tea before heading to the hospital. A social worker of the region, Vijay Kumar, told IANS that when the police reached the spot, they refused to take him in their vehicle as he was covered in mud and asked villagers to clean him. Khan was declared brought dead in the hospital.