LUCKNOW, Oct. 6 -- A group of villagers attacked three pedestrians on suspicion of they being drone thieves in a Rae Bareli village early on Saturday, senior police officials said on Sunday. Ten individuals have been arrested in connection with the assault.

The latest incident comes five days after a a 38-year-old mentally unstable man, resident of Tarwawati ka Purwa of Fatehpur district, was lynched by a group on suspicion of being a drone thief at Dadedpur Majra Ishwardaspur village under Rae Bareli's Unchahar police station limits on Wednesday midnight. Hari Om was attacked and left abandoned in an injured state when he lost his way to his in-laws' place.

Similarly, a mob under Rae Bareli's Salon police station limits brutally beat t...