Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Monday assured strict action against those responsible for hanging four Scheduled Caste persons upside down from a tree and beating them with sticks in Ahmednagar district and said no one has the right to take law into their hands.

According to police, the victims, among them two minors, were allegedly stripped, hung upside down from a tree and thrashed with sticks by a group of six men on suspicion of stealing a goat and some pigeons at Haregaon village in Shrirampur taluka of Ahmednagar on August 25.