{"id":5676,"date":"2019-06-05T18:33:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=5676"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:11:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:41:10","slug":"man-suspected-to-be-thief-lynched-in-kolkatas-manicktala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/man-suspected-to-be-thief-lynched-in-kolkatas-manicktala\/","title":{"rendered":"Man suspected to be thief, lynched in Kolkata\u2019s Manicktala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young man was found dead in the premises of a local club in Kolkata\u2019s Manicktala area this afternoon. According to the information available, he had been lynched by local people, though the reason remains unknown so far.<\/p>\n<p>Police reached the Muchipara area under Manicktala police station area on Wednesday afternoon on receiving information that a young man had been beaten up and locked inside the premises of a local \u201ccultural association\u201d club. They found the severely injured person inside and he was declared dead when taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>According to some reports, the young man was caught on the basis of suspicion that he was trying to steal some clothes from a local shop. He was then taken to the club premises, beaten up and was left there with the door locked from outside.<\/p>\n<p>There have been rumours in the past about child-lifters and thieves leading to lynching in various parts of the country. However, whether the incident in Manicktala is a similar or unrelated to any rumour is yet to be ascertained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason behind the lynching is still unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":5677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5676"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=5676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}