Imphal, July 26 2009: A man who identified himself to be a member of a particular underground group was lynched by a mob this evening around 7 at Lilong Mairenkhong Makha Leikai Laphu Makhong located around one kilometer south of Lilong police station.

The man was reported to be mobbed when he came to hand over a letter containing a telephone number with one live round of bullet.

The lynched man could not be identified till late tonight.

The police have picked the dead body.

The letter containing the telephone number and the bullet were recovered from the person.

According to local source, three masked men came to the house of one Ayub Khan (36), son of (L) Sirajuddin, who owns an Imphal-Guwahati bound Royal Rajdhani bus (NL-08A-1866), around 7pm today.

The source said, two of the three men were seen holding pistols.

The three men were said to have gone inside the Royal Rajdhani bus being parked outside the gate of Ayub Khan's residence.

The three masked men overpowered one Yusub Ali (22), son of Tayeb Ali of Sangai Yumpham, who was then inside the bus.

They seized the mobile phone of Yusub Ali by gunpoint.

Then two of them entered inside the house of Ayub Khan and they handed a piece of paper containing telephone number to the wife of Khan.

Seeing the whole episode, locals began to gather in number with weapons available with them in their hands.

The mob then began to chase the three gunmen wherein they caught one among them and thrashed him at the courtyard of Ayub Khan's residence.

The man succumbed on the spot where he was mobbed.

The other two men have made a good escape.

Family members of Ayub Khan said the KCP (MC) Wanglen Khuman Group had served them a monetary demand of Rs 3 lakh recently.

They could not fulfill the demand of the group due to financial constraint.

Family members are suspicious that the incident might have been related to the monetary demand served by the group.