PATNA, Feb. 26 -- A middle aged government employee of Dumka in Jharkhand, said to be in a mentally fragile health, arrived in Khaira block in Jamui to find a groom for her daughter. His unusual behaviour might have generated suspicion and people took him to be a child lifter. He was mobbed and the police came on time to rescue him.

At Muzaffarpur's Sakra police station area, a group of women, caught a woman, tied her with a pole and thrashed her. She was also suspected to be a child lifter. Again, the police came to rescue this woman and convinced the people that she was not a child abductor.

Similarly in Banmakhi police station area of Purnea district, an elderly woman, said to be mentally unstable, was caught and beaten up by a crowd...