Gurugram: A 32-year-old man was lynched by the family members of a woman he had allegedly molested in a Faridabad village on Thursday night. His friend, who, too, was attacked with sticks and iron rods, is battling grievous injuries at a Delhi hospital. Police said that around 11pm on Thursday, Mohit and his friend, Naveen, were drinking in a car when they were surrounded by the family members and relatives of the 28-year-old woman in Bhupani. Armed with sticks, rods and axes, the attackers broke the window panes, pulled the duo out and started raining blows on them, accusing the two friends of molesting the woman. They allegedly kept hitting the two until a police vehicle reached the spot and the cops intervened. An hour earlier, the woman and her family members had visited the local police station to lodge a molestation complaint against Mohit and Naveen. While the police were noting down the complaint, one of the family members got a call from a neighbour that Mohit and Naveen had barged into their house and were threatening other women with dire consequences. “They left the police station in a huff. A police team also rushed behind them, but by the time they reached their house, the two had left. We took the woman to BK Hospital for a medico-legal case and started a search for the two accused,” said a police officer. In the meantime, the police got information that the woman’s relatives were attacking Mohit and Naveen near Bhupani. When a team reached the spot, the attackers fled, leaving the two bleeding profusely from the head. The two were taken to BK Hospital, where Mohit was declared dead on arrival. Naveen was referred to a Delhi hospital as his condition deteriorated. Mohit, the police said, had a criminal history and several cases were pending against him. After the attack, an FIR was lodged at Bhupani police station against four members of the woman’s family under sections 148 (rioting armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly is guilty of offence), 302 (murder), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 427 (mischief) of the IPC. The police said they were trying to find out the others involved in the attack. On Friday, a 20-year-old man was arrested in connection with the lynching. “We are conducting searches at various places for the others. One person has been arrested and remanded in seven days’ police custody,” an officer said.
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