

{"id":52544,"date":"2019-12-05T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T13:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=52544"},"modified":"2019-12-05T18:40:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T13:10:37","slug":"images-shared-to-claim-lynch-mob-justice-deterred-rape-in-nagaland-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/images-shared-to-claim-lynch-mob-justice-deterred-rape-in-nagaland-fact-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Images shared to claim mob justice stopped rape incidents in Nagaland &#8211; Fact-check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the gruesome gang-rape and murder in Hyderabad where a young veterinarian was burnt to death, actor-turned-parliamentarian Jaya Bachchan <a href=\"https:\/\/scroll.in\/video\/945548\/rapists-should-be-lynched-watch-mp-jaya-bachchan-suggest-bypassing-the-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suggested<\/a> that culprits accused of such crimes should be <em>&#8220;brought out in public and lynched&#8221;<\/em>. Amidst the hue and cry across the country, certain images of mob justice are being shared on social media to claim efficiency in deterring crimes against women.<\/p>\n<h3>Photographs depicting lynch-mob justice<\/h3>\n<p>An image of a man stripped and tied to a pole while a mob attempts to burn him alive is garnering multiple shares on social media. It is being claimed that Syed Farid Khan, accused of raping a Naga girl in 2015, was paraded, beaten and burnt alive by a mob of 10,000 that dragged him out of the jail. The claim also asserts that no rape has taken place in the state since the incident. <em>&#8220;\u092f\u0939 \u0924\u0938\u094d\u0935\u0940\u0930 \u0938\u0948\u092f\u0926 \u092b\u0930\u0940\u0926 \u0916\u093e\u0928 \u0915\u0940 \u0939\u0948 \u091c\u093f\u0938\u0928\u0947 2015 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u090f\u0915 \u0928\u093e\u0917\u093e \u0932\u095c\u0915\u0940 \u0938\u0947 \u092c\u0932\u093e\u0924\u094d\u0915\u093e\u0930 \u0915\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0925\u093e \u091c\u093f\u0938\u0947 \u0926\u0940\u092e\u093e\u092a\u0941\u0930 \u0938\u0947\u0902\u091f\u094d\u0930\u0932 \u091c\u0947\u0932 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092c\u0902\u0926 \u0915\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0917\u092f\u093e \u0925\u093e. \u092c\u093e\u0926 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0924\u0958\u0930\u0940\u092c\u0928 \u0926\u0938 \u0939\u095b\u093e\u0930 \u0915\u0940 \u092d\u0940\u095c \u0928\u0947 \u0909\u0938\u0947 \u091c\u0947\u0932 \u0938\u0947 \u0928\u093f\u0915\u093e\u0932 \u0915\u0930 \u0938\u095c\u0915\u094b\u0902 \u092a\u0930 \u0928\u0902\u0917\u093e \u0918\u0941\u092e\u093e\u092f\u093e, \u092e\u0930\u092e\u094d\u092e\u0924, \u091c\u0932\u093e\u092f\u093e \u0914\u0930 \u092b\u093f\u0930 \u0909\u0938\u0947 \u091a\u094c\u0930\u093e\u0939\u0947 \u092a\u0947 \u091f\u093e\u0902\u0917 \u0926\u093f\u092f\u093e.* *\u0930\u093f\u0915\u0949\u0930\u094d\u0921 \u0909\u0920\u093e\u0915\u0930 \u0926\u0947\u0916 \u0932\u0940\u091c\u093f\u090f \u0924\u092c \u0938\u0947 \u0928\u093e\u0917\u093e\u0932\u0948\u0902\u0921 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0906\u091c\u0924\u0915 \u092c\u0932\u093e\u0924\u094d\u0915\u093e\u0930 \u0915\u0940 \u090f\u0915 \u092d\u0940 \u0918\u091f\u0928\u093e \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0939\u0941\u0908&#8221;,\u00a0<\/em>reads the claim. Alt News has received a fact-check request of the same on its <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.altnews&amp;hl=en_IN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official<\/a> Andriod app.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52552\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-03-at-7.48.44-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-03-at-7.48.44-PM.png 573w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-03-at-7.48.44-PM-300x267.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Facebook user Jitendra Tiwari also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=2458799754375213&amp;set=a.1375482762706923&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> the same image with the message, <em>&#8220;\ud83d\udca1\u092e\u094b\u092e\u092c\u0924\u094d\u0924\u0940,\u092e\u0936\u093e\u0932 \u091c\u0932\u093e\u0928\u093e \u091b\u094b\u095c\u094b, \u0905\u092c \u0938\u0940\u0927\u0947 \ud83d\ude37\u092c\u0932\u093e\u0924\u094d\u0915\u093e\u0930\u0940 \u0915\u094b \ud83e\udd3a\u091c\u093f\u0928\u094d\u0926\u093e \ud83d\udd25\u091c\u0932\u093e\u0913 (Stop lighting candles and torches, now directly burn rapist the alive -translated)&#8221;<\/em> The post that calls for violence and mob justice has garnered more than 1,500 shares.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52558\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-03-19_59_18-\ud83d\udca1\u092e\u094b\u092e\u092c\u0924\u094d\u0924\u0940\u092e\u0936\u093e\u0932-\u091c\u0932\u093e\u0928\u093e-\u091b\u094b\u095c\u094b-\u0905\u092c-\u0938\u0940\u0927\u0947-\ud83d\ude37\u092c\u0932\u093e\u0924\u094d\u0915\u093e\u0930\u0940...-D-Jitendra-Tiwari.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-03-19_59_18-\ud83d\udca1\u092e\u094b\u092e\u092c\u0924\u094d\u0924\u0940\u092e\u0936\u093e\u0932-\u091c\u0932\u093e\u0928\u093e-\u091b\u094b\u095c\u094b-\u0905\u092c-\u0938\u0940\u0927\u0947-\ud83d\ude37\u092c\u0932\u093e\u0924\u094d\u0915\u093e\u0930\u0940...-D-Jitendra-Tiwari.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-03-19_59_18-\ud83d\udca1\u092e\u094b\u092e\u092c\u0924\u094d\u0924\u0940\u092e\u0936\u093e\u0932-\u091c\u0932\u093e\u0928\u093e-\u091b\u094b\u095c\u094b-\u0905\u092c-\u0938\u0940\u0927\u0947-\ud83d\ude37\u092c\u0932\u093e\u0924\u094d\u0915\u093e\u0930\u0940...-D-Jitendra-Tiwari-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One Deepak Chouhan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/185067215438199\/permalink\/508361249775459\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared<\/a> a different image with the same claim that Syed Farid Khan was publically executed in Nagaland for raping a girl. This post has garnered close to 5,300 shares so far.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52559\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-03-20_20_20-\u092f\u094b\u0917\u0940-\u0938\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0930.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-03-20_20_20-\u092f\u094b\u0917\u0940-\u0938\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0930.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-03-20_20_20-\u092f\u094b\u0917\u0940-\u0938\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0930-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Fact-check<\/h1>\n<p>In the course of this article, we will fact-check the following claims:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>An image of a rape-accused lynched in Nagaland in 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Another image shared with the same claim<\/li>\n<li>The claim that no incident of rape was reported in Nagaland since the lynching.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Image 1: Ecuador<\/h2>\n<p>Using Google reverse image search, Alt News found that the first image of the man whose feet are engulfed in fire is not from Nagaland. It&#8217;s an image of a man named Marco Quispe J\u00e1come accused of robbery being burnt alive by villagers of Pelileo Grande in Ecuador. Hearing the shouts of Quispe, parish priest Fabricio D\u00e1vila along with the two other locals came to his rescue and doused the fire with a sack and dirt, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eluniverso.com\/2006\/10\/11\/0001\/12\/F86AAA30519341F4B427456F92B26BF4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> by Ecuadorian newspaper<em> El Universo<\/em> published on October 11, 2006. The accused was later handed over to the police and taken to a hospital where it was found that he suffered second-degree burns.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52590\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-15_43_12-En-Pelileo-se-intent\u00f3-quemar-a-un-hombre-OCT.-11-2006-El-Pa\u00eds-Historicos-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-15_43_12-En-Pelileo-se-intent\u00f3-quemar-a-un-hombre-OCT.-11-2006-El-Pa\u00eds-Historicos-.png 950w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-15_43_12-En-Pelileo-se-intent\u00f3-quemar-a-un-hombre-OCT.-11-2006-El-Pa\u00eds-Historicos--300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-15_43_12-En-Pelileo-se-intent\u00f3-quemar-a-un-hombre-OCT.-11-2006-El-Pa\u00eds-Historicos--768x615.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The subject was apprehended by a group of residents who were guarding the parish, who found him with a bag with keys, screwdrivers, ropes, razor and other items that, according to the inhabitants of the area, he allegedly used to commit his robberies. The detainee said it was the first time he tried to steal because he was alone and he did it because he had to support his mother and that the job as a radio technician was not enough. (-Google translated)&#8221;,<\/em> reported the news outlet.<\/p>\n<p>We also found an <em>Associated Press<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apimages.com\/metadata\/Index\/AP-I-ECU-ECUADOR\/0c4d9d5ea694489ca82fda4967ef0165\/3\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photo<\/a> which reiterated in the caption, <em>&#8220;Mario Quishpe shouts as villagers burn his legs after allegedly being caught stealing in Pelileo Grande, Ecuador, some 75 miles south of Quito, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52597\" style=\"width: 1493px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-52597 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-15_57_01-ECUADOR-_-Buy-Photos-_-AP-Images-_-DetailView.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1493\" height=\"803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-15_57_01-ECUADOR-_-Buy-Photos-_-AP-Images-_-DetailView.jpg 1493w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-15_57_01-ECUADOR-_-Buy-Photos-_-AP-Images-_-DetailView-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-15_57_01-ECUADOR-_-Buy-Photos-_-AP-Images-_-DetailView-1024x551.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-15_57_01-ECUADOR-_-Buy-Photos-_-AP-Images-_-DetailView-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-15_57_01-ECUADOR-_-Buy-Photos-_-AP-Images-_-DetailView-990x532.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-15_57_01-ECUADOR-_-Buy-Photos-_-AP-Images-_-DetailView-1320x710.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1493px) 100vw, 1493px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: AP Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Image 2: Nagaland<\/h2>\n<p>A Google reverse image search of the image shared by one Deepak Chouhan revealed that it depicts a real incident from India&#8217;s northeastern state of Nagaland. Syed Sharif Uddin Khan, a 35-year-old small-time trader, was accused of a raping a 20-year-old student of a local women&#8217;s college on February 24, 2015. He was dragged out of the Dimapur Central Jail and lynched by an angry mob on March 5, 2015, according to an initial <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-others\/nagaland-mob-break-into-prison-drag-out-and-lynch-rape-accused-to-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> by <em>The Indian Express<\/em>. The police had said that the mob overpowered the jail security, tied up the man and dragged him seven kilometres while thrashing him along the way. The man was believed to be an illegal Bangladeshi infiltrator, said the report. However, the outlet later <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-others\/not-bangladeshi-lynched-nagaland-man-came-from-family-of-armymen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> that Khan came from a family of army men. Two of his brothers were serving in the army while one had died on duty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52623\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-18_07_15-Dimapur_-Lynched-Nagaland-man-came-from-family-of-Armymen-not-Bangladesh-_-Indi.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1148\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-18_07_15-Dimapur_-Lynched-Nagaland-man-came-from-family-of-Armymen-not-Bangladesh-_-Indi.png 1148w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-18_07_15-Dimapur_-Lynched-Nagaland-man-came-from-family-of-Armymen-not-Bangladesh-_-Indi-300x85.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-18_07_15-Dimapur_-Lynched-Nagaland-man-came-from-family-of-Armymen-not-Bangladesh-_-Indi-1024x290.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-18_07_15-Dimapur_-Lynched-Nagaland-man-came-from-family-of-Armymen-not-Bangladesh-_-Indi-768x217.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-18_07_15-Dimapur_-Lynched-Nagaland-man-came-from-family-of-Armymen-not-Bangladesh-_-Indi-990x280.png 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1148px) 100vw, 1148px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Protesters take picture from the mobile after he was dragged out of the Jail and lynched him on the highway in Dimapur, India north eastern state of Nagaland on Thursday, March 05, 2015. Protesters stormed the jail and dragged the accused and lynched him on National Highway. Police resorted to blank firing and fired tear gas shells to disperse the mob injuring scores of protesters and killing a student,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>reads the caption given to a <em>Getty Images\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.in\/detail\/news-photo\/protesters-take-picture-from-the-mobile-after-he-was-news-photo\/524448772?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photo<\/a> shot by independent photojournalist Caisii Mao.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52604\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52604\" style=\"width: 1444px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-52604 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-16_16_47-CONTENT-Protesters-take-picture-from-the-mobile-after-he...-News-Pho.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1444\" height=\"916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-16_16_47-CONTENT-Protesters-take-picture-from-the-mobile-after-he...-News-Pho.jpg 1444w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-16_16_47-CONTENT-Protesters-take-picture-from-the-mobile-after-he...-News-Pho-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-16_16_47-CONTENT-Protesters-take-picture-from-the-mobile-after-he...-News-Pho-1024x650.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-16_16_47-CONTENT-Protesters-take-picture-from-the-mobile-after-he...-News-Pho-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-16_16_47-CONTENT-Protesters-take-picture-from-the-mobile-after-he...-News-Pho-990x628.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-04-16_16_47-CONTENT-Protesters-take-picture-from-the-mobile-after-he...-News-Pho-1320x837.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1444px) 100vw, 1444px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, according to a Nagaland government report submitted a few days after Khan was lynched in March 2015, the accused had said to the police that he had paid the women after <em>&#8220;consensual sex&#8221;<\/em> twice. On March 12, <em>The Indian Express<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-others\/dimapur-mob-lynching-victim-was-never-raped-nagaland-govt-tells-mha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>, <em>&#8220;When contacted, Wabang Jamir, IGP (Range), Nagaland, said that investigators were not aware of the government report and were still treating the case as one of rape.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alt News was unable to locate any other follow-up reports on the investigation. The then Chief Minister of Nagaland T.R. Zeliang was quoted on March 12, 2015, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/states\/north-east\/don-t-jump-to-conclusions-zeliang\/cid\/1529019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/a> stating that the investigation into the incident was not complete thus it could not be concluded whether the crime was rape or not. He said that the court will decide the matter while adding that media reports about the government report stating that there was &#8220;no rape&#8221; were false. In September 2015, Guwahati high court asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the killing of the rape accused. After missing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/states\/north-east\/hc-extends-probe-into-lynching\/cid\/1413831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deadline<\/a> for the completion of the investigation, CBI filed an application asking for more time to submit the final report. On June 21, 2016, the high court granted six more months.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;According to the high court direction, the CBI registered four cases in connection with the lynching and started its investigation after collecting the case records from Nagaland police on December 10 last year. The CBI officials have inspected the crime scenes, collected electronic evidence, examined more than 40 witnesses and interrogated 29 accused persons&#8221;<\/em>, stated an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/states\/north-east\/hc-extends-probe-into-lynching\/cid\/1413831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/a> on June 22.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52733\" style=\"width: 494px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-52733 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/hc1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/hc1.jpg 494w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/hc1-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Telegraph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>False claim: &#8220;No rape incident since the lynching in Nagaland&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>The viral rumour also claims that no incident of rape was reported in the state after the lynching of Syed Sharif Uddin Khan in 2015 but, this is false. In May 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/as-nagaland-minor-alleges-rape-mob-strips-suspect-beats-and-parades-him-1860156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>NDTV<\/em><\/a> reported that a 12-year-old tribal girl was allegedly raped by a non-tribal salesman in a remote village located near the Myanmar border in Mon district of Nagaland. According to the <em>National Crime Records Bureau <\/em>(NCRB) data, the number of rape incidents in Nagaland in the years <a href=\"http:\/\/ncrb.gov.in\/StatPublications\/CII\/CII2015\/FILES\/Statistics-2015_rev1_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ncrb.gov.in\/StatPublications\/CII\/CII2016\/pdfs\/Crime%20Statistics%20-%202016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ncrb.gov.in\/StatPublications\/CII\/CII2017\/pdfs\/CII2017-Full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017<\/a>\u00a0were 35, 26, and 10 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, an unrelated image of a mob attempting to immolate a robbery-accused in Ecuador was shared as a rape-accused being served justice by a lynch-mob in Nagaland. While the second image is related to this incident, the claim that the man was a rapist was not substantiated. Furthermore, it is untrue that no incidents of rape have been reported in the state since the 2015 lynching.<\/p>\n<p>It is noteworthy that mob justice has become a talking point since the Hyderabad rape case after parliamentarians called for the culprits to be surrendered to the public and lynched. An attempt at public extrajudicial punishment was in fact made on November 30 when <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1200745426212835328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">locals hurled slippers on the policemen<\/a> who stopped them from entering the Shadnagar police station where the Hyderabad rape-accused are held. Lawmakers encouraging citizens to take the law in their own hands, coupled with social media posts promoting that mob justice deters heinous crimes, can prove to set a dangerous precedent in the public mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the gruesome gang-rape and murder in Hyderabad where a young veterinarian was burnt to death, actor-turned-parliamentarian Jaya Bachchan suggested that culprits accused of such crimes should be &#8220;brought out in public and lynched&#8221;. 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