The mob went on a rampage in the house and set fire to a motorcycle parked outside.
A man - allegedly the brother of a local Trinamool Congress leader - was caught red-handed today while raping an 11-year-old girl in West Bengal's Durgapur town.
The girl was standing near her house in the City Centre area, waiting for some relatives, when Bhola, brother of local Trinamool Congress leader Babu Mondal, came by, reported the Press Trust of India, quoting the police. He was inebriated.
Bhola gagged the girl, took her to Mondal's house and raped her, said Additional Commissioner of Police Sunil Yadav.
When the girl started screaming, locals rushed to the rescue. They stripped and thrashed Bhola and set on fire a motorcycle parked outside. The mob even attacked the police when they arrived.
Bhola was taken into custody and the girl was admitted to the Durgapur sub-divisional hospital. A police picket has been posted in the area.