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New Delhi:When migrant worker Ashok Das emerged with a bleeding hand from the house of a woman friend on Thursday night, a mob grilled him about what business he had to do there..
Das panicked and tried to escape, but the mob of 50-60 people allegedly caught, thrashed him for an hour and tied him to an iron pole in Keralas Muvattupuzha...
The police reached the spot at Valakam after a call was made and took him to the hospital, but the 24-year-old man from Arunachal Pradesh succumbed to his injuries the next day...
According to sources in the Ernakulam police, Das had gone to visit his woman, a co-worker earlier, in Valakom village near Muvattupuzha in Ernakulam rural district..
It appears that some neighbours, who were part of the mob, had overheard the argument and surrounded the victim with the intention of moral policing, the source said.. There was no information on how long the migrant worker was based inErnakulam but Das spoke Malayalam fluently, the source said.. (Edited by Tony Rai)..
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