Tripura Police today detained two persons in connection with the lynching of a hawker at Murabari area in Mohanpur sub-division on June 26.
However, they were released after interrogation for some time, Assistant Inspector General of Police Smriti Ranjan Das said.
Uttar Pradesh-based garment hawker Jahir Khan Qureshi was lynched by a mob inside a camp of the Tripura State Rifles (TSR) the state's own counter-insurgency force, at Murabari on June 28.
The mob violence was triggered over rumour of the presence of child lifting gang following the murder of an 11-year-old boy at Mohanpur sub-division in West Tripura on June 26.
Two more persons were lynched by mobs at Bishalgarh in Sipahijala district and Sabroom in South Tripura on the same day.
They include Sukanta Chakraborty, who was hired by the government for campaign against rumour mongering.
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