Bengaluru, Aug. 1 -- The High Court has expressed its serious concern over the incident of mob assaulting a mentally unsound teenaged youth, following the alleged insult to the statue of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar at Masanapura village in Chamarajanagar district.

Justice M. Nagaprasanna, who was hearing a petition recently filed by one Chandru, 19, a resident of Uppara Beedhi in Masanapura, Chamarajanagar, seeking to quash the criminal case filed against him at Yalandur Police Station, made strong oral observations after going through the videos and photographs of the incident.

"Is this rule of law, what is this? This is why I have been telling daily, the State is in anarchy. There is no rule of law. Nowhere in the world this happens. In a democra...