The Hate crime: UP man lynched in Mumbai local

A north Indian laborer was beaten to death on a train by unidentified people in what is believed to be the latest attack on migrant workers in India's financial and entertainment capital, police said Wednesday. Police have registered a case of murder and detained two people for questioning, said K. P. Raghuvanshi, additional director-general of Railway Police.
Dharamdev Rai, 25, and three other laborers from the impoverished Uttar Pradesh state were attacked on Tuesday afternoon by more than a half a dozen people on board a local train, Raghuvanshi told The Associated Press. Tension has been building up for nearly two weeks in Mumbai since supporters of a fiery local politician attacked students from northern India, many of them from the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, who had traveled to Mumbai to apply for jobs on the railways.Police were investigating whether those involved in Tuesday's attacks belonged to the hard-line Maharashtra Reconstruction Party, which claims migrant workers are taking away jobs from local Maharashtrian people.