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Shocking! Mentally disabled woman stripped, shaved and beaten to death

Updated on: 05 July,2017 08:33 AM IST  |  Mumbai
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In a shocking incident, a mentally disabled woman was tied to a tractor, stripped, shaved and lynched by a mob in West Bengal. The woman was accused of being a child kidnapper

Shocking! Mentally disabled woman stripped, shaved and beaten to death

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In a shocking incident a mentally disabled woman was tied to a tractor, stripped, shaved and lynched by a mob in West Bengal. The woman identified as Otera Bibi (42), was accused of being a child kidnapper after she stopped at a wooden hut of a local villager Dilip Ghosh. The lady had been living with her parents and had wandered from her home to a nearby village in West Bengal last Tuesday. When the crowd saw her standing inside Ghosh's hut they thought she was a child kidnapper because a similar incident had occurred where a child disappeared from the neighbourhood.


In a report by the Daily Mail, Ghosh thought that Otera was there to kidnap his 10-year-old daughter and raised an alarm. Subsequently, a furious mob grabbed Otera and tied her to a tractor, where they proceeded to assault her with sticks and pelted her with stones. Locals then proceeded to rip off her clothes and shaved her head as they beat her mercilessly. Witnesses in the Mithipur-Panagarh village said that people attacked otera mercilessly even as she tried to protest telling them of her innocence. It is believed that onlookers could not understand what she was saying and continued to assault her.


The police arrived later in the afternoon and rushed her to Jangipur sub-divisional hospital, but she succumbed to her injuries.

The article quoted Murshidabad Superintendent of Police Mukesh as saying, "A mob beat up the woman after a rumour spread that she was trying to lift children from the village. We have started investigating the murder case. We are trying to identify the people involved in the lynching as well as those who spread the rumour."

Although the police have detained several villagers for questioning, nobody has been charged as yet. In a statement, Otera’s husband said that she was ‘mentally challenged’ and they did not worry at first when they couldn’t find her as she used to wander off often, but would eventually return.

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