[1] A mob of about 7000–8000 people broke into a prison, dragged a man detained under accused of rape out of the Dimapur Central Jail, paraded him naked and beat him to death in a case of vigilante justice.
[4][5][6][7][8] According to the first information report (FIR) filed by the victim, a 20-year-old student of Shri Digamber Jain Girls' College,[9][10] was raped in Hotel De Oriental Dream[11][12] in Dimapur on 23 February 2015.
One of his brothers, who also lived in Dimapur and ran a business said the woman who had filed the case was close to the accused's family and was well-acquainted with his wife.
[10] In the home state of the accused, Assam, All Assam Minority Students' Union burnt an effigy of the Nagaland government in Nagaon, accusing the government of discriminating against minorities living in the state, and demanded an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on 6 March.
[22] Amnesty International India on 7 March demanded an investigation into the incident, calling it a serious lapse of the justice system.
[27] Chief Minister Zeliang said that there had been administrative lapses and that relaxing the Section 177 of the CrPC, which prohibits unlawful assembly, in Nagaland was a mistake.
[30] Also on 7 March, Chief Minister Gogoi blamed the security force of the central government for failing to protect the jail.
Therefore, the lone train service the Nagaland Express originating from Dimapur to Guwahati was made to halt for nearly an hour at Lanka Railway Station.
[36] On 6 March, it was reported that the police were examining the CCTV footage from the Dimapur hotel where the rape had allegedly taken place.
[19] The Superintendent of Police, Meren Jamir said that the footage showed the girl entering and leaving the room with the accused.
[15] On the same day, it was announced that Zeilang's state cabinet had appointed Veprasa Nyekha, a retired district and sessions judge, to head a judicial inquiry commission.
[26] On 8 March, Inspector-General of Police Wabang Jamir said from initial medical report it appeared the girl was raped and that the samples had been sent to a forensic lab.
[40] On 11 March, it was reported that the Nagaland state government informed the Ministry of Home Affairs that the alleged rapist had claimed in the interrogation after his arrest that he had never raped the victim and that it was consensual sex for which he gave her ₹5,000.
[17] But, Nagaland Chief Minister T. R. Zeliang later told The Times of India that the Ministry of Home Affairs had been misquoted by the media.
[41][42] On 19 March 2015, after a cabinet meeting the Nagaland government recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry for the case.
[43] On 18 May 2015, a judicial commission, headed by retired Gauhati High Court judge B. D. Agarwal, began its investigation.
[45] On 7 September 2015, the Gauhati High Court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to start a probe and submit a report within 6 months.
[46] In June 2016, a judiciary inquiry commission headed by retired justice B. D. Agrawal released its findings in a report.