Imagine being one of the 37 passengers on a Greyhound bus travelling in Canada while one of your co-passenger calmly stabs another about 40 times before decapitating him. It surely would not be comfortable place to be in. A couple of months earlier, a Tomohiro Katō unleashed fury with his dagger in the busy Electric town of Akihabara in Tokyo eventually killing 7 people and injuring another 12. Both the attackers were arrested by the police eventually but had this been India, I wonder how this would have ended. I also have my doubts if Kato would have managed to carry on his rampage for so long.
Lynching of criminals is a growing concern in India, or is it? The people of Bihar seems to be OK with it, given the fact that even the policemen there have been caught on camera punching and kicking a chain-snatcher on the streets. Delhi and Mumbai too gets its fair share of mob justice.
Lynching seems directly proportional to the crime rate of the state. Furthermore, it would be safe to assume that Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat is one of the promoters of this summary justice, looking at the controversy of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. You tell me, how many Indian movies have you seen when in the end the bad guy does not get his ass kicked?
Coming back to the point, even though we might blame our Judicial system or the law-enforcing agencies as the primary reason for mob fury but it’s not just about justice. If the crowd at Akihabara or group of people inside the Greyhound had intervened, maybe some innocent lives could have been saved. I am not advocating the idea of Extra-Judicial punishment but there are times when the so called mob is salutary. Post Akihabara massacre, 12 more people have been arrested who have stated their intention to follow the steps of Kato. The Police of Japan surely seems to be on an alert, but are the people of Japan?
Via CBCCA
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