A school teacher in Andhra Pradesh was beaten up, stripped and paraded through the streets by a mob after he was found to have allegedly raped one his students two years ago.
A video of the incident, captured by passers-by in Eluru town of West Godavari district, shows the 38-year-old man being made to walk on a busy road, in full traffic.
Rambabu, who teaches English, had been allegedly sexually harassing the Class 10 student for the last two years.
When the teenager became pregnant recently, he reportedly gave her abortion pills. Her family found out about the rape and pregnancy when the girl started bleeding heavily.
They caught the teacher, beat him up, stripped him and paraded him naked to the police station. The video shows two men holding the teacher by his arms as they take him to the police station.
"He is a teacher and lured a Class 10 student with promise of marks and raped her. He made her pregnant. She almost died of bleeding. We shifted her to hospital. Once we found out, we could not spare him," one of the men is heard saying in the video.
At the police station, the man was given a shirt and a towel to cover himself. He was made to sit and was questioned by the police.
School teacher Rambabu allegedly promised the Class 10 student more marks and raped her.
"They called me to talk and then 15 people beat me up mercilessly," Rambabu said at the police station, admitting to the crime.
Police registered a case and Rambabu was arrested. A case against has not been registered against the mob that took law into their own hands.
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