Re: Mob Mentality
The lynching was ordered by the police. So in my view people were not exactly following mob mentality. They were doing what had been asked from them.
And policemen ordered this because they were sure that these people had just committed murders during robbery. So keeping in view our holes-filled court system, they thought it would be better to punish them right at the spot. It was a cruel way to do it, but in their view the police and people were thinking that they were taking revenge for those murders.
So the conclusion is that extra-judicial killing is WRONG. Even if those two boys were caught red-handed committing murder, still no one had the right to kill them at the spot. There are no if’s and but’s.
True that justice system is not good, but such lynchings by public will create an ugly environment in the society. People will be willing to take law in their hand, and many more innocent will die based only on suspicion.
My message to the ‘qaum’ is that DON’T condemn this killing just because these boys were innocent. Condemn it because ANY extra-judicial killing is wrong, EVEN if it is of a criminal.
Pakistan zindabad.