Beijing, November 03: A woman caught red-handed stealing faced public humiliation. She was stripped off her clothes by a mob.
The mob which gathered, ripped off her clothing and wrote, “I am thief” in Chinese on her back. She was also physically assaulted.
She tied rags around her chest to prevent complete exposure reported by Asianone.
The incident happened in the city of Taizhou, in east China’s Zhejiang province.
The incident drew lot of attention from netizens.
Many stated that such mob justice was frequent in the locality. The incident also angered people for lack of proper police procedures and laws in Taizhou which resulted to such repeated incidents.
–Agencies