Why a Bihar cop's lynching figured in Modi's Bengal campaign speech
Why a Bihar copâs lynching figured in Modiâs Bengal campaign speech SHO Ashwini Kumar was killed in neighbouring Bengal during a raid to catch a theft suspect. On April 12, newspapers published from Patna carried a photograph of a pair of funeral pyres. Urmila Devi, 70, had died of a heart attack after hearing about her sonâs mob lynching. Her son, Ashwini Kumar, station house officer of Kishanganj town in Bihar, was lynched by a mob at Pantapara village in Bengalâs North Dinajpur, where he was leading a police team in pursuit of a man suspected of motorbike theft. They w...