The intended victim was saved after her
screams were heard by passers by in north-western city of Ganganagar.
They allegedly found the 40-year-old
suspected attacker pinning the girl to a wall, and dragged him away for a
'vigilante community meeting'.
Locals then took him to a butcher's shop
where he was beaten, before his genitals were brutally chopped off with a meat
cleaver.
The man is being treated in hospital, where
his condition is described as critical.
A photo showing the severed appendance has been
released, but is too graphic to be published.
A witness said: "No one went to help the
man because they could see his penis on the ground and knew this was punishment
for a sex crime.
"We have had a lot of intolerable
offences against women in this country recently, with girls being raped, hung,
and molested, and it's time it stopped.
"This sends out a very strong message to
anyone like that - if you do it you will be punished."
But the police have
called for those responsible to come forward.
A spokesman said:
"People cannot take the law into your own hands.
"As deplorable as
these crimes are, law and order has to be maintained, and not lynch justice. We
ask those men who carried out this attack to hand themselves in before we find
them."
The teenage girl has been
treated for shock, and given counselling.
India has seen a spate of
high profile violent attacks on women in recent years.
In 2012, a 23-year-old
woman died after being attacked and gang-raped on a bus in Delhi in a case
which sent shockwaves around the world.
The attack sparked a wave
of protests across India.
In May, two young girls
were found hanged from a tree in the state of Uttar Pradesh, amid reports they
had been sexually assaulted.
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