2 min readGuwahatiMay 23, 2026 10:19 PM IST
Two men were allegedly lynched by a mob over suspicions of cattle theft in Assam’s Sonitpur district on Friday, in a village close to the border with neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh.
According to Sonitpur SSP Barun Purkayastha, two men were killed in the mob attack, which took place in the early hours of Friday, while a third was injured. He said two separate cases have been registered — one in connection with the alleged cattle theft and another in connection with the mob lynching — but no arrests have been made in the latter so far.
He also said that though the investigation has found that the deceased had come from Central Assam’s Morigaon district, their identities have not yet been ascertained.
“We have come to know that there were a large number of people involved in the attack, and since this is a remote forest village, there is no material like CCTV footage that we can rely on to identify the perpetrators,” he said.
The incident took place in the Bhalukpong area, close to the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.
“There was a gang of cattle lifters who entered the village at around 3.30 am and had lifted three cows. When the villagers found out, they started chasing and assaulting them, in which two were killed and one injured. The cows and the vehicle they had used have been recovered,” he said.
