Indian sisters to be raped as 'punishment' for brother eloping

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38. The similarities are genuine:

India and the US both rely on an English common law inherited from the colonial period

Both cases have been brought to the attention of the country's supreme court

One practical issue is the authority of the central government as opposed to ad hoc local practice

In both stories, locals seek punishment of parties entirely innocent of the supposed offense (which is sexual in nature)

The local punishments have the character of spectacles: the punishments include parading the victims and displays of them naked

I do not know full details of the Johnson lynching, but sexual assaults on lynching victims in the US seem to have been quite common, and the local judgment in your OP includes sexual assault on the victims

From the article I posted: “<T>he one thing that has been most difficult to teach is respect for the law. We had to learn it the hard way. There is no better example, there is no clearer symbolic pre­cedent of establishing and enforcing the rule of law than this case.”