Patna, Aug 28 (IANS) A Bihar sub-inspector was beaten up and injured by villagers due to mistaken identity in Muzaffarpur district Sunday, police said.

Madan Singh of the Special Task Force from Patna, along with a local police informer, was beaten up by villagers when he went there to arrest a criminal.

He was an official duty but people mistook him as a criminal himself and started beating him up.

He was rescued by police and admitted to hospital with injuries.

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