Date:23/12/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/12/23/stories/2007122357660300.htm

New Delhi

Man lynched in Jehanabad

Jehanabad: A man who shot dead the brother of his grandfather was mercilessly beaten up by a mob before being gunned down at a village in Bihar’s Jehanbad district, the police said on Saturday.

Shivraj Yadav, an accused in the murder of his grandfather shot dead Rajju Yadav at Qazichak under Makhdumpur police station of the district before being overpowered by the locals.

The angry villagers thrashed Shivraj before one of them shot him dead.