Four Dalit men were allegedly hanged upside down from a tree and beaten up with sticks by six persons on suspicion of stealing a goat and some pigeons at a village in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district, police said on August 27.
A video of the incident that took place in Haregaon village of Shrirampur taluka surfaced on social media, following which the police on August 26 arrested one person in connection with the attack, while five others are absconding, an officer said.
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