The law wasn't enough,jungle justice better

A mob, consisting of thousands of people,
stormed a prison compound in India’s far
northeast, dragging out a rape suspect before
beating him to death on the streets on Thursday,
authorities say.
Police say they tried to stave off the mob with
tear gas and opened fire, killing one person.
The crowd targeted a 35-year-old suspect,
identified as an undocumented Bangladeshi
settler, who died of his injuries before officers
could rescue him, said L.L. Doungal, the director-
general of police in the remote Nagaland state,
where the attack took place.
The mob that broke into the main jail in the
state’s Dimapur district was comprised of
“thousands” of people, Doungal told CNN. “Many
of them were students in uniform,” he said.
The suspect was accused of raping a local
woman on February 23.
Tensions between the native Naga and
undocumented Bangladeshi migrants in the
district have been simmering for some time,
police said.
On Thursday evening, thousands of people who
were demanding the cancellation of trade permits
for Bengali-speaking settlers, tore into the prison
complex and pulled the suspect out.
Police initially used tear gas and bamboo canes
to rescue the inmate, but were not successful,
Doungal said.
“There were students in uniform. So, we had to
use minimum force,” he said.
The crowd planned to lynch the suspect, but he
died from critical injuries suffered in the attack.
“We retrieved his body before it could be (hanged)
,” Doungal said.
Dimapur town has been placed under curfew,
according to the officer, as the situation remains
volatile.......personally I think this was in reaction to the documentary of the 2012 rape event in which one of the rape suspects blamed the victim of causing the rape.

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