India to probe lynching of rape suspect by mobs
New Delhi has ordered an investigation into the lynching of an alleged rapist by an angry crowd of people in northeastern India, local officials say.
On Thursday, mobs broke open the gates of the Central Jail in the city of Dimapur in Nagaland state and stripped the 35-year-old man naked.
He died while being dragged miles through the streets of the city as people beat and hurled stones at him. His dead body was later hung from the city’s clock tower.
Federal Home Minister Rajnath Singh told reporters that the government had ordered a probe into the incident as the suspect had not been convicted of rape yet.
The suspect was waiting for trial in prison for reportedly raping a 20-year woman from the Naga ethnic group on February 23. He was arrested a day later.
Figures released about the number of rape assaults in India reportedly indicate that every 22 minutes a rape is committed in the country that has a population of over 1.2 billion.
In 2013, India brought in tougher laws against sexual offenders after a 23-year-old medical student was gang-raped and savagely beaten on a moving bus and thrown out to a street in New Delhi in 2012. However, the laws have failed to stem the tide of violence against women across the country.
The horrific nature of the crime shocked Indians and mass protests broke out across the country over the government’s failure to protect women against violence.
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