Two dalits beaten to death in rural Patna

PATNA: Two dalit youths were beaten to death by co-villagers in rural Patna on Friday night. The bodies were recovered on Saturday morning from a drainage around 2km away from their Ramnagar Manjhi Tola village under Ghoswari police station in Barh subdivision. The deceased were identified as Soldier Manjhi (19) and Debvrat Manjhi (17). They were cousins.
SP (Rural) Kantesh Kumar Mishra said both were beaten to death by rods and sticks.“They had gone missing on Friday night. Vipin Yadav, Pankaj Yadav, Manish Yadav and Kamlesh Yadav are the named accused. Pankaj is evading arrest, while the other three have been arrested. The family members suspect that the cousins’ murder was a fallout of a fight they had with the accused over playing loud music one month ago,” he said.
Ghoswari police station SHO Sanjeev Mauaar said two bloodstained thick wooden sticks and cloths were recovered from a garden outside the village where both were beaten up. Their bodies were probably dragged to a dry drainage for misleading the police,” the SHO said. “Severe bleeding through nose and ears caused their death. Multiple injury marks were found on their bodies. They were also stabbed probably with some blunt metallic objects,” the SHO said, adding the bodies were handed over to families after postmortem at Barh Sadar hospital.