Lack of law enforcement, or even the capability to enforce the basic laws, leads to this lynching behavior.
India can bring in N number of laws, but without addressing enforcement, all it helps is to give a false sense of achievement to activists asking for such laws.
Also, saying "Google Engineer" and "India" really distorts what actually led to this lynching since Law and Order is the responsibility of the State Govt, and the location where this happened, is not really urban. (Police in rural areas are not equipped to handle situations like this).
I'd rather not discuss it on HN, since my knowledge of this incident is based on the front page headline on Times of India, but the gist of it is one of those 3 who was lynched, forcefully offered a chocolate/candy to a girl. Girl started crying. Now, any male stranger offering chocolates to kids forcefully, is suspicious anywhere in the world isn't it? So villagers took law into their own hands.
The OP news report on dw.com seems to be distorting the main issue here and trying to blame the central govt of India, for an issue that is purely under the jurisdiction of the state govt of Karnataka (which is in fact the opposition party in the center).
India can bring in N number of laws, but without addressing enforcement, all it helps is to give a false sense of achievement to activists asking for such laws.
Also, saying "Google Engineer" and "India" really distorts what actually led to this lynching since Law and Order is the responsibility of the State Govt, and the location where this happened, is not really urban. (Police in rural areas are not equipped to handle situations like this).
I'd rather not discuss it on HN, since my knowledge of this incident is based on the front page headline on Times of India, but the gist of it is one of those 3 who was lynched, forcefully offered a chocolate/candy to a girl. Girl started crying. Now, any male stranger offering chocolates to kids forcefully, is suspicious anywhere in the world isn't it? So villagers took law into their own hands.
The OP news report on dw.com seems to be distorting the main issue here and trying to blame the central govt of India, for an issue that is purely under the jurisdiction of the state govt of Karnataka (which is in fact the opposition party in the center).