New Delhi - A rape suspect was pulled out of a jail and lynched by a mob in north-eastern India on Thursday, local reports said, with anger raging over the high rate of sexual violence in the country.
The man, who stood accused of raping a woman multiple times and was arrested on 24 February, was dragged out of the prison in Nagaland state before being beaten to death and strung up, according to media reports.
"A mass protest rally against the rape was held at Dimapur [Nagaland's main commercial town] this morning after which students and angry people forced into the district jail and managed to pull out the accused," the Press Trust of India news agency said.