A 22-year-old woman at Mangar Basthi under Habeebnagar police station limits on Monday afternoon before she was attacked by locals on suspicion that she was a kidnapper.
The group of local residents beaten up Nagamani after she could not satisfactorily reply to the questions posed by the locals. However, she was rescued by the Habeeb Nagar police who reached the spot on being alerted. Nagamani was shifted to Haseeb Nagar police station and after the police investigated about her background, they could not find anything relating her with child-lifting.
In another similar incident on Saturday, a mob of around 500 people had thrashed a 52-year-old transgender to death after mistaking him for a child trafficker.
