THE LAW OF THE MOB
On November 29, Animesh Bhuyan, 23, was lynched by a group of around 50 people in Jorhat, Assam, after he was mistakenly assumed to be responsible for a road accident that injured a middle-aged person on a scooter. The attack on Bhuyan, an All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) leader, was led by a man named Niraj Das, the son of the injured rider and an accused in over a dozen criminal cases, including charges of drug peddling.
This daylight killing of a youth in a busy market area less than a kilometre away from the police station, has sparked massive outrage in the state. With increasing
