Whether or not you'll get justice depends on who the perpetrator is. How high and mighty he is. While that's true for the whole world, it's truer for India?
The perpetrators can get caught and locked behind bars, thanks to the immediate and relentless manhunt in those cases, where the victims hailed from the higher social hierarchy. However, it would be silly to anticipate the same results in cases where the roles are reversed.
What happened in 2018? Look at the case of city dwellers Nilotpal Das and Abhijeet Nath who were lynched by the rural people in Assam. In that Nilotpal Das and Abhijeet Nath lynching case, the manhunt was conducted on war-footing and dozens of people have been nabbed. Their community people even went to the extent of threatening the rural people with large scale communal violence. Yes, they wanted to take the law into their own hands as a resounding response to those rural folk who took the law into their own hands. Comical but true. READ MORE: Fear and Loathing in New India: The Assam Lynching and Its Aftermath
Now, let's look at a different example... We can make a better sense of the factual ground reality if we compare and contrast the criminal cases, say, between the criminals, who, in relation to their victims, are (1) more and (2) less affluent. Given below is an example of affluent perpetrators:
Hapur Lynching, Uttar Pradesh, India (June 18, 2018)
The Uttar Pradesh police has been accused (by the aggrieved party) of sabotaging their own investigation at the behest of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the lynching of Mohammed Qasim by the majority community folk. There's a video footage of the whole thing. Yet the perpetrators are either absconding or given bail. This is what happened when the villains are more powerful than their victims. READ MORE: Just One Month After Hapur Lynching, Qasim's Wife Says 'It's Like He Never Existed'
Road Rage Or Cow Vigilantism? The Hapur Lynching.
Mob Lynching in Hapur U.P.
"Modi should not appeal to Hindus to hate. Today, it is my family that has fallen prey to the hate, tomorrow it will be someone else, and the situation will keep getting worse", said Naseem, 35, widow of the victim of Hapur Lynching.
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