(I request my Secular friends not to misunderstand my motives in quoting this incident)

There is a site in a place called Ayodhya in India where one section of the Indian society believes was a temple of "Lord Rama". Rama is a lead character in one of the top epics of India called Ramayana and is worshipped as God. Ayodhya is believed to be the birth place of Rama. This section of the society believes that during an invasion, a muslim king demolished the temple and built a mosque over it.

The mosque was not in use for some time and there was an adjoining Ram Temple in the vicinity of the unused mosque.

During a popular upsurge of people in 1992, a mob of people forcefully demolished the mosque structure before the eyes of many political leaders.

This was an incident of "People taking Law into their hands" because they felt that the politicians and the judiciary were unable to respond to their view in time.

(Presently the courts are examining if the "Demolition" was an illegal conspiracy  in which the political leaders of some parties were involved)
 

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