Shocking video footage has been broadcast of Indian police and a mob of civilians as they punched and kicked a man accused of stealing a gold chain. He was then tied him to a motorcycle and dragged down a street.
In the video, the rail-thin suspect - wearing only tattered trousers, his hands bound behind his back - is repeatedly punched in the face and kicked in the stomach, chest and back by a mob in the eastern city of Bhagalpur.
One man can even be seen whipping the suspect, identified only as Salim, with a belt. At one point, Salim was tied to the back of what appeared to be a police motorcycle and dragged down the street. At least two policemen could be seen in the video.
