On April 10, while the country was engrossed in the political powwow of the Lok Sabha elections, four Christian Adivasis of Jurmu village were severely beaten for hours by a Hindu mob of neighbouring Jairagi on allegations of killing an ox. Here too, the mob forced the victims to chant “Jai Shri Ram” and “Jai Hanuman”. When they refused to do so, they were beaten further. The mob dumped the victims in front of the local police station at midnight, met the thana-in-charge, Amit Kumar, and went away. Instead of taking victims to a hospital, the police made them wait outside, under the open sky, for several hours. By the time the victims were taken to the local health centre, one of them, Prakash Lakda, had succumbed to his injuries.