Vigilante Justice In India

Rainman

Rainman

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Thousands of angry Indians stormed into a prison in the city Dimapur, where a man who had raped a college student was being held. The mob dragged the rapist to the city center, stripped him then they beat him to death.

Police officers who tried to rescue the rapist angered the mob.

The mob responded by hurling stones and other "missiles" at the police, injuring a number of them.

Although the man had not officially been convicted of the rapes, Indians felt they had enough substantial evidence of their own to make sure he got an appropriate punishment in their eyes.
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Maybe this sort of justice will force rapists to think twice before committing the act.
 
Was this the case where the rapist was later found to have been innocent? Vigilante justice is not always right, I think the justice system should be allowed to run its course and come to a conclusion and punishment.
 
Defying the law and lynching isn't showing the Indian justice system favorably at all. They have arrested people for the lynching and the police failed as they allowed the prison to be stormed. He may have been innocent, but no one deserves to be lynched, those days are relegated to history books or so I thought.
 
That is not right. He was already in jail, he was going to be prosecuted I assume. Vigilante justice is not good because often it is not justice at all. Without examining the evidence, they can easily have the wrong person or misunderstand what really happened and seriously harm or kill someone who should not have received so severe a punishment. I do not think anyone should be beaten to death, that is simply not an appropriate way to handle even a capitol offense.
 
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