In a shocking incident, a 34-year-old man was allegedly beaten up on suspicion of being a COVID-19 patient and died after falling into a gutter during the assault in Kalyan town of Maharashtra’s Thane district, police said on Friday.
According to official, the shocking incident took place on Wednesday morning, when Ganesh Gupta had gone out to purchase some essentials amid the COVID-19 lockdown.
On noticing some policemen manning the street, the victim took an alternate route, where a few passersby assaulted him after he coughed while walking, he said.
The men who assaulted Ganesh suspected him of being a COVID-19 patient and attacked him, causing him to fall into a gutter and die, the official said.
The deceased’s body was sent for post-mortem and a case of accidental death has been registered as of now, the station house officer of the Khadakpada police station said.