In a shocking display of vigilante violence recorded on video, a mob in Virar tied up a woman they believed to be a thief to a building gate and thrashed her last week. The woman, around 25 years old, was allegedly caught while stealing.
In the video, which went viral on Tuesday afternoon, the woman could be seen with her wrists tied above her head to the gate of a residential building in Manvelpada, Virar (East), and her lips swollen and bleeding. Two men were questioning her, and she could be heard confessing that she had earlier stolen money and a mobile phone from the area.A police constable was also seen entering the scene; sources said he later took the woman to Virar police station. But the Virar cops neither booked her, nor recorded a complaint of her humiliation and thrashing. Instead, they shooed her away, claiming no one had come forward to register a complaint.
But the Virar cops failed to record her complaint for the humiliation and beating she had suffered at the hands of the mob, despite the existence of clear video proof.
The exact date of the video could not be verified.