Nagaland Lynch Mob: A skewed and barbaric justice served by a misguided society

This will be short. I don't have any point to drive home nor do i have much suggestions. You have had enough time to form your opinion and I am voicing mine.

In a way, they were voicing their opinion too. But by what means? How does your opinion determine whether a person deserves to live?

A mob, 7000-8000 strong, drags a rape accused out of the Dimapur Central Jail, parades him naked for over seven kilometers and beats him to death, all in the name of justice. Only later does the fact come to light that he was not a rapist after all,

“Syed Arif Khan did not rape the woman, it appeared to be a case of consensual sex.”

Said the Nagaland Government, in a report to Union Home Ministry, on 11th March, six days after the accused was murdered by a mob who didn't know any better. So how is this any less inhuman than all the rape cases that are gaining media attention. How is the accused and lynched any less human or any more guilty than one of us?

And then It was not all about the (supposed) rape. The violence reeked so much of communal lines that 4000 Bengali Muslims left the state thereafter. Talk about weeding out the unwanted while being on the side of "justice".

So what we are left with? A blot on humanity and a wronged family of the victim (shit... Accused). A dark legacy for other people of the country who can now go emulating the situation. And it is being done. The lynch mob of Agra and a second one in Meluri Village of Nagaland may well be the start.

Rape or No-rape. It is not for me or you or them to decide. In no scenario could such a barbarism be justified. Yes, the government and Indian Judiciary System has been largely incapable but while its natural to be frustrated its not okay to lose your sense and humanity for the sake of humanity itself. You people are misguided.