A 36-year-old Bihar native was allegedly beaten to death by locals in Kerala’s Malappuram after being suspected of theft, official said on Monday.

According to the police, the deceased victim, identified as 36-year-old Rajesh Manchi, a resident of Bihar, was viciously thrashed and tortured for over two hours by locals who accused him of theft after he fell from a house in Kizhissery area of Malappuram.

Giving details, a senior official said that on the night of May 12, some locals in Kizhissery found Manchi unconscious under suspicious circumstances.

Suspecting that the Bihar native had fallen from a house while attempting to rob the place, the locals allegedly tied him up and interrogated him by viciously beating him with wooden sticks and steel pipes for over two hours.

The victim sustained critical injuries in the chest, ribs and hips due to the malicious beatdown and ultimately passed out and succumbed.

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The official said that when Manchi became unconscious due to the beating, one of the accused informed the local public servant, who then informed the police about the incident, following which the cops arrived at the scene and rushed the victim to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival.

Superintendent of Police (SP) Malappuram, Sujith Das said that Rajesh Manchi was viciously beaten to death by nine people who tied his hands behind his back, adding that all the accused have been arrested, adding that the accused had tried to destroy evidence by attempting to erase security camera visuals from nearby CCTV cameras.

The senior officer said the arrested accused claimed that the deceased victim had come to rob the place when he fell while trying to climb the house he was allegedly trying to burglarise.

However, the police have found no such evidence regarding the allegations levelled against the victim, he said, adding that the death is being treated as a case of lynching.

Further investigation is underway, the officer added.

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Environmental watchdog  National Green Tribunal (NGT) has slapped a hefty Rs 4,000 crore fine on state of Bihar for its failure to manage solid and liquid waste in a scientific manner.

An NGT bench comprising of chairperson Justice A K Goel, Justice Sudhir Agarwal and Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi along with experts Afroz Ahmad and A Senthil Vel, imposed Rs 4,000 crore environmental compensation on Bihar and directed the state to deposit the fine in a ring-fenced account within two months.

The said amount was to be operated according to the chief secretary’s directions only for waste management in the state of Bihar, the bench said.

The NGT bench said the fine has been imposed on the “polluter pays principle” for Bihar’s failure to scientifically manage the liquid and solid waste in violation of the mandate of law, particularly judgments of the Supreme Court and the National Green Tribunal, adding that the amount will be utilized for setting up of setting up solid waste processing facilities, remediation of legacy waste and setting up of sewage treatment plants, and faecal sludge and septage treatment plants so there remains no gap.

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The green tribunal bench noted that Bihar has a legacy waste of over 11.74 lakh metric tonnes as well as unprocessed urban waste of 4072 metric tonnes per day and the gap in liquid waste generation and treatment was 2,193 million litres per day.

The bench urged the state to find better alternatives to utilize the wet waste for composting and explore appropriate locations for the same, adding that the scale of expenditure for sewage treatment plants may be reviewed in the light of realistic expenses involved in decentralized/traditional systems or otherwise.

Bihar capital Patna along with six other cities— Darbhanga, Gaya, Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, Chhapra and Hajipur— are ranked among the 50 most polluted cities in the world, as per an IQAir report.

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A man in Bihar’s Saran district married the sister of his bride-to be after she threatened to commit suicide if he married her sister.

According to reports, the groom, identified as Rajesh Kumar, a resident of Chhapra, and the woman, Putul were having an affair. However, Kumar was engaged to be wed to Putul’s sister Rinku Kumari in Bihar’s Saran on May 2.

Reports said that as the groom was moving towards the bride’s house accompanied the wedding procession, he received a call from the bride’s sister, Putul Kumari, who threatened to kill herself by jumping off a building if Rajesh Kumar did not her marry her instead of her sister.

Other reports said that the bride and the groom had exchanged the wedding garlands at the mandap (wedding altar) when Putul called Rajesh and the marriage ceremony came to an abrubt halt.

On being questioned by the bride’s family and his own, Rajesh came clean and narrated the twisted love story to shocked guests and relatives. He revealed that Putul and him were in love with each other and wanted to get married. This led to an argument between the bride’s and groom’s families as mayhem ensued at the wedding ceremony leading to the police being called in by some guests at the function who feared something bad might happen.

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Soon, officials from the nearby Manjhi police station arrived and convinced the families to sit down and figure out a solution instead of physically and verbally assaulting each other.

 Rajesh made another revelation as he told the families that he and Putul knew each before he got engaged to her sister Rinku.

He said that Putul would often visit Rajesh in Chhapra, where she had went for her intermediate exam at a college, and the two soon grew close during those meetings and would often talk on the phone for hours.

Rajesh revealed that he and Putul finally professed their love for each other, however, when his marriage to Rinku was fixed, Putul became so disturbed that she would either stop the wedding or commit suicide.

Ultimately, the families decided that it was best for all parties involved that Putul and Rajesh be married and thus came a befitting end to a bizarre yet familiar love story.

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