Patna, (Bihar Times): The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Vaishali, Anil Kumar Singh, on Friday ordered attachment of properties of 10 accused in the lynching of 10 persons on suspicion of being thieves at

Dhelpurwa village of the district on the wee hours of September 13. All these ten accused are absconding. The court issued the order under Section 83 of CrPC on an application of the investigating officer Avadhesh Kumar Singh. The court had on September 28 issued
non-bailable warrant of arrest against accused Nawal Kishore Rai, Bhagwat Rai, Rajkishore Rai, Ganesh Rai, Shatrughan Singh, Ranjit Kumar Rai, Prem Kumar Singh, Rama Rai, Parmanand Singh and Rameshwar Singh.

Ten members of nomadic Nat community were beaten to death while another sustained serious injuries as the local villagers suspected them of being thieves. The case was handed over to the crime investigation department and preliminary inquiry suggested that the
deceased were not thieves.

More than two dozen people have been done to death in Bihar in similar cases after that September 13 mayhem, but no headway has been made in any of them as Dhelpurwa incident, was not only the biggest, but it acquired political dimension too.

Not only that it brought further shame to the state administration as the local people recovered half-burnt bodies of these thieves dumped on the bank of river Gandak three days later. The district magistrate and superintendent of police were transferred and action was taken against the officer-in-charge of the local police station.

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