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Mumbai: An autorickshaw driver donning a burqa was beaten up by locals after he was mistaken as a child-lifter. Sheikh told the police that he had worn a burqa to conceal his identity while searching for passengers involved in a previous fare dispute who had allegedly not paid him. Tausif Mohammed Shaikh, a local resident of the area, had dropped three passengers in his auto rickshaw in Parksite two...

PALGHAR: Police in Palghar district averted potential mob violence against two 'sadhus' (ascetics) in a village after the residents mistook them as child lifters, nearly three years after three persons were lynched in the district over similar suspicion, an official said on Tuesday. Palghar rural superintendent of police Balasaheb Patil said two men were spotted at Chandranagar village, within the...