The fatal stabbing of 22-year-old Mayank Lohar in the first-class compartment of a Mumbai suburban train on Tuesday night has sent shockwaves across the country. Heading home to Virar after his work as a salesman at a retail store, Lohar apparently asked another man to shut the train door to prevent the rainwater from drenching them, which escalated into an argument and ended up taking his life. The shock and trauma of losing a young son this way perhaps made the Lohar family—his father is an app-based cab driver—demand instant capital punishment for the accused, Roshan Suvarna, who works in a cargo unit. He was arrested, but the wheels of justice hardly move with alacrity.

A Pattern Of Public Rage

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