In another case of mob violence in India, a man from a dalit, or low-caste family, has been beaten to death in a Bihar town.

The victim was beaten to death in Daulatganj after a mob caught the man and accused him of stealing a cow.

He was beaten to death with bricks and bamboo sticks.

A murder case has been lodged, but no suspect has been identified.

The incident came a day after an elderly man was reportedly lynched in a village in Bihar's Munger district when he intervened to save his grandson in a dispute over a love affair.

The police have arrested three people over the incident.

In the last two and a half months, nearly a dozen cases of lynching have been reported across the state.

In rural Bihar, 'mob justice' is common.

Last year, over three dozen similar incidents were reported and many more may have gone unnoticed.

The worst lynching case was reported in September last year when 10 men from the underprivileged Kueri community were beaten to death in Vaishali district on suspicion that they were thieves.

Later, a high-level probe found that the men had been innocent all along.