Custodians Of Death: The Unabated Deaths In Jharkhand s Jails, Police Custody outlookindia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from outlookindia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
On June 13 last year, the police had registered an FIR against members of the tribal community, claiming that they were caught with arms, and the CRPF’s elite CoBRA allegedly fired upon them in self-defence.
An encounter shows nothing has changed for Adivasis in Jharkhand since a 2015 study by Stan Swamy scroll.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scroll.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Among undertrials charged with being Maoists under stringent, non-bailable offences in Jharkhand, high numbers are Adivasis, Scheduled Castes and OBCs, a study led by late Fr. Stan Swamy had found in 2015. An alleged encounter during an Adivasi festival six years later shows not much has changed