A mob of more than 1,000 people in northeastern India kidnapped a rape suspect from jail and beat him to death Thursday while a crowd of onlookers recorded it on their smartphones.
The man was being held at the Dimapur Central Prison in Nagaland, accused of raping a female student, according to reports.
The crowd took the man, who was thought to be a 35-year-old car dealer from Bangladesh, to the city's clock tower and stripped and beat him before pelting him with stones.
SHOCKING - reminds me of the 2010 Sialkot lynching case - tho mob was much smaller than this one in India's Nagaland pic.twitter.com/DoACNrzfMd— omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) March 6, 2015
Earlier the crowd had marched for several miles to the prison as a protest against incidents of sexual violence in India. Superintendent Meren Jamir said the situation was "very tense," adding, "we are trying our very best to restore order."
Nagaland: Mob raids Dimapur jail, lynches 35-year-old rape accused | Read more: http://t.co/ExnQRXQFJJ pic.twitter.com/JfI2LsQKtT— The Indian Express (@IndianExpress) March 6, 2015
Meanwhile, the Indian government has promised retaliation against the BBC after the broadcaster released India's Daughter, its documentary about the brutal and fatal gang rape of a medical student on a New Delhi bus in 2012. The film has been banned in India.