A woman beggar was beaten to death on Saturday and four others were brutally assaulted by villagers in Jharkhand's Sahebganj district on suspicion of being 'choti-katwa' or braid-cutters, police said.
Police said Assistant Sub-Inspector Kapildeo Keshri was injured when a police team went to Radha Nagar to rescue the group as the villagers pelted them with stones.
A child too was thrashed severely by the villagers. The woman was admitted in a hospital where she died.
Police said the villagers were agitated after the braid of a girl was cut.
--IANS
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