Legal ground for the prosecution of individuals who participated in mob lynchings exists but is rather weak at the moment. The source for the above statements is https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/its-time-to-enact-an-a...

You’re talking about India: where slavery is alive and well, college girls are locked in at night and rape/domestic violence goes virtually unpunished, with police as “quality” as those in Afghanistan. VICE did a piece on this. Also, sectarian violence there is normal.

Also in the category of generic flamewars unsuitable for Hacker News: nationalistic ones. Can you stop these like we've asked you to stop the others?

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