VIOLENT VIGILANTE ATTACKS: A STUDY

Abstract

Vigilante justice, it has/is being practiced in many countries under unsettled conditions. ‘whenever informally organized groups have attempted to supplement or replace legal procedures or authorities (legaproceduresre) to fill the void, where institutional justice mostly did not yet exist’. Such conditions commonly give rise to acts of lynching or genocide. Vigilante attacks in India are commonly deviance, which is when there is a non-conformity concerning the well-established social and cultural norms and principles.