In the second case of lynching within a week in Bihar's Gopalganj district, a suspected thief was beaten to death by angry villagers on Friday early morning.

Kishore Nat was beaten to death in Supalwa village of Gopalganj district by angry villagers who allegedly caught him in the act, police sources said on Friday.

However, the victim's family claimed that Nat was not a thief. They told the police that he was drunk and was passing through Supalwa when angry villagers surrounded him and beat him to death.

On Monday night, twenty-two-year-old Bikrama Ram was beaten to death in Lohkhara village of Gopalganj district for allegedly trying to steal something from a local villager's house.

The incident is the latest in a series of lynching cases reported from Bihar. The state government had recently announced that the entire village will be fined if its residents decide to take the law in their own hands.