2015 Dimapur mob lynching (original) (raw)

The 2015 Dimapur mob lynching was a case of mob lynching that took place in Dimapur, Nagaland, India, on 5 March 2015. A mob of about 7000–8000 people broke into a prison, dragged a man detained under Accused of rape out of the Dimapur Central Jail, paraded him naked and beat him to death in a case of vigilante justice.