Doctors torture suspected phone thief to death in India Senior police officer says victim's body bore 'marks of inhumane torture' Witness says lynching began after doctor saw the suspect stealing a phone Police say as many as 12 junior doctors joined in the savage attackÂ By Afp and Damien Gayle for MailOnline A mob of junior doctors tied a suspected thief of a pillar, beat him with sticks and used a razor to slash his penis, then left him to die, police in India said. Two people have been questioned over the attack at a medical student dorms in Kolkata, West Bengal, in which a man was beaten with bamboo sticks before his genitals were mutilated. Police found the 30-year-old victim lying in a pool of blood shortly after the attack on Sunday. A senior officer said the victim's body bore 'the marks of inhumane torture'. Doctor death: A mob of student doctors at the Nilratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital tortured to death a suspected thief, beating him with rods and slashing his genitals with a razor, police in Kolkata said The killing highlights the problem India has with mob justice, with angry crowds dishing out summary punishments to suspects whose guilt has not been properly tested. 'Preliminary inquiries have revealed that nearly a dozen junior doctors picked up the man on suspicion of stealing mobile phones,' Kolkata's deputy police commissioner Dhrubajyoti De said. They dragged him into a room at the state-run Nilratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital, tied him to a pillar and carried out the attack, before leaving him to die. 'Some of them even slashed him on his private parts,' Commissioner De told AFP, adding that labourers working nearby alerted police to the attack. Police found the man lying in a pool of blood. A razor was also seized from the spot,' he said. 'The kind of wounds on his body bear the marks of inhumane torture,' he told AFP, saying the unidentified man was declared dead on arrival in the emergency room. A witness to the lynching told The Telegraph the incident began shortly after 6am when a student doctor saw a man put his hand through the window and grab a nearby mobile phone. The student doctor's screams for help brought a crowd running to his aid. By then, the man had entered a toilet on the third floor and locked himself in. He broke a window pane and tried to escape but some of our boys climbed a wall and pulled him out,' the witness, also a junior doctor, said. Then everyone started assaulting him. Investigation: File picture shows West Bengal state police personnel in Kolkata on November 10 Kolkata, West Bengal:Â The killing highlights the problem India has with mob justice, with angry crowds dishing out summary punishments to suspects whose guilt has not been properly tested The mob dragged the suspected thief to another room of the hostel and continued beating him, witnesses said. He was then tied to a pillar outside the room and residents started thrashing him with rods, said a construction worker named Rabiul who was working inside the hostel. The Telegraph made no mention of the wounds to the man's genitals. It reported that police sources had said a post-mortem examination found the victim died of internal haemorrhage caused by the beating. Around 1,000 students live in the student accommodation, but only 200 were there on Sunday, with the rest at home on study leave for examinations coming up in December. State deputy health minister Chandrima Bhattacharya ordered an inquiry, describing the incident as 'very shocking'. The government will not tolerate such kinds of inhumane behaviour. We have ordered an inquiry into the incident. The committee was asked to submit the report in 24 hours,' she said. Students said theft was common at the hostel. There are no guards at the entrance, including at night. Anyone can enter the hostel,' a junior doctor said. Students anger over the repeated thefts had boiled over when the suspect was caught, he said. Two people have been detained for questioning but no arrests made.