Delhi: Miscreants kill man over suspected conspiracy to spread COVID-19

PTI, Apr 9, 2020, 8:56 AM IST

New Delhi: A 22-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death in Delhi’s Bawana after he was suspected of a conspiracy to spread COVID-19, police said on Wednesday, April 8.

“The victim has been identified as Mehboob Ali, a resident of Harewali village in Bawana,” they said.

Police said that Ali had gone to Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh for a Tablighi Jamaat conference and returned to the national capital in a truck of vegetables after 45 days. He was held at the Azadpur vegetable market and released after a medical examination.

“When he reached his village, rumours spread that Ali had a plan to spread coronavirus,” they added.

He was thrashed in the fields on Sunday. He was rushed to a hospital by police where he died, a senior police officer said.

Police registered a case under relevant sections of the IPC and arrested three persons, they added.