I get the desire for vigilante justice when official justice doesn't do the job. But the way you phrase it (a tip) turns it into a sort of victim blaming.
People in our civilized society are not expected to carry weapons for their own safety. Some choose to, but we don't blame those who were victimized while not carrying one and suggest that they should.
If another society isn't quite 100% civilized yet, we should encourage better policing, not for potential victims to carry weapons. A police force who valued human rights properly would make such crimes a top priority. The particular crime described, with video evidence and a perpetrator recognized around the village, probably requires only a few days of police work to track down. Compared to the enormous damage caused, it's shameful that the police haven't acted.
>>People in our civilized society are not expected to carry weapons for their own safety. Some choose to, but we don't blame those who were victimized while not carrying one and suggest that they should.
Not only do the women get raped on daily basis but they also get blamed for instigating the crime. Does that seem like a civilized country to you?
>> If another society isn't quite 100% civilized yet, we should encourage better policing, not for potential victims to carry weapons.
Yup, tell that to all the thousands of women who get gang-raped in the meanwhile. I'm sure they'll appreciate.
"Civilized" doesn't mean that no crimes ever happen. It means that when they do, the victims have recourse to the law. In the long term, the result is fewer crimes.
I've been to these kinds of villages, albeit in Maharashtra and MP rather than UP. When the rapist is in front of you, the police are hours away. There is no 911 you can call for an instant response, just giving cops directions to your location might take minutes.
(Western style addresses are not very common here.)
But yeah, let's let petty western ideologies (boo for guns and other cultural expressions of lower class whites!) stand in the way of women protecting themselves from gang rapes.
People in our civilized society are not expected to carry weapons for their own safety. Some choose to, but we don't blame those who were victimized while not carrying one and suggest that they should.
If another society isn't quite 100% civilized yet, we should encourage better policing, not for potential victims to carry weapons. A police force who valued human rights properly would make such crimes a top priority. The particular crime described, with video evidence and a perpetrator recognized around the village, probably requires only a few days of police work to track down. Compared to the enormous damage caused, it's shameful that the police haven't acted.