India, Sept. 30 -- Around 7.30pm on September 29, 2006, the lone telephone at Andhalgaon police station rang. Constable Rajkumar Dongare picked up. Across the crackling line came the panicked voice of Sidharth Gajbhiye, a resident of Dhusala village 3.5km away. His cousin Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange, Gajbhiye said, had just burst in, having fled through the rice fields from a mob of 60-70 villagers - on tractors, armed with rods, stones and bicycle chains - bearing down on his mud-and-brick home. "Maaro Saalon Ko (kill the b*****)," rose the cry that sent Bhaiyyalal scampering out of Khairlanji, and which Gajbhiye repeated over the phone. Dongare listened, set the receiver down and, according to two former officials, did nothing. Tensions had been...