Child-lifting rumour- Woman beaten to death in Ahmedabad, 3 injured

Ahmedabad:

The rumours about child-lifters, which has so far claimed over 20 lives across the country today took one more life in Ahmedabad city of Gujarat.

Some people beat up 4 beggar women near Wadaj circle suspecting them to be ‘child-lifters’ and one of them died.

PI of Wadaj Jignesh Rathwa said that the 4 women beggars, who were originally from Rajasthan were beaten up by some unidentified people suspecting them to be child-lifters due to the ongoing rumours on social media for past few days.

‘The incident took place at around1430 hrs today and one of the injured women, identified as Shanta Devi native of Korda village under Sumerpur Taluka of Pali district in Rajasthan later died,’ he said.

We have rounded up some people in this connection and lodged a case under various section of IPC including 302,’ he said.

DeshGujarat