Punjab: Man chained and thrashed by five men in Moga for reporting electricity theft (ANI photo)

A man was chained and thrashed by five men in Gholia Khurd village of Moga in Punjab for allegedly reporting theft of electricity.

According to a report in news agency ANI, the five men suspected that the victim had complained about them and thrashed him.

"Five people had chained and thrashed the man. They suspected that he had complained about them indulging in electricity theft," Superintendent Harwinder Singh Parmar told ANI on Monday.

An FIR, in this case, has been registered.

"One accused has been arrested while others are yet to be nabbed," he added.