Seven individuals were arrested by the Kheda district police for allegedly lynching a migrant worker from Chhattisgarh on suspicion of theft in Vansol Sundha village, Mahemdabad taluka. The victim, Ramesh Kumar Kherwar, from Mandhana village in Balrampur district, was allegedly beaten to death early Monday.
Deputy Superintendent of Police VR Bajpai stated that four accused were arrested on Tuesday, and three others were arrested on Wednesday. The four individuals arrested on Tuesday appeared in court on Wednesday, where a five-day remand was requested for further investigation. However, the court granted only one day of remand. Additionally, three more people were arrested on Wednesday at 7 pm.
The four accused individuals, named Vishnu Sodha, Lalsinh Sodha, Suresh Parmar, and Ganpat Dabhi, have been charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The three individuals arrested on Wednesday are Vikram Parmar, Jagdish Parmar, and Kirit Chauhan. A case was lodged at Mahemdabad police station on Monday.
Kherwar, who had been in the area for a year, had been working with 22-year-old Manish Kumar Singh. Singh, a complainant in the case, works at a high-speed railway terminal in Sabarmati and hails from Chhapra district in Bihar. Kherwar’s wife, Indarso, expressed her hope for government assistance in educating their children and compensating for their loss, as Kherwar was the sole breadwinner of the family. She also requested government assistance in bringing back Kherwar’s body.
Kherwar’s wife explained that he had gone to Gujarat to make extra money, as he was a farmer who grew rice and corn. She received a call from the police on Monday morning, informing her of the attack and murder near a railway station. Kherwar’s relative, Baram Singh, confirmed that they would collect the body from Ahmedabad Civil Hospital on Thursday morning.
In a separate incident on March 19, a 35-year-old Nepalese national was lynched in Sanand on suspicion of theft, leading to the arrest of ten individuals.
