Police Brutality, Custodial Torture

Examples of police brutality which escape the medical attention:

1.On the floor was seated a screaming, half-naked man as two men were stretching his legs apart, while one man twisted his arms backwards and immobilised his back with his knees. We, the beginners, were gleefully ‘enlightened’ that this technique of unnatural joint movement would not leave any visible injury marks on his body even if he managed a medical examination later.

2. Cops loved the ‘roller treatment’ in which a smooth wooden roller was placed on the thighs of a prostrate victim. Then two cops stood on the roller as it was rolled forward and backwards was excruciatingly painful but left no marks.

3. A popular, filth-free technique involved giving low-voltage (approximately 80 volts DC, produced by a hand-cranked generator) shocks to the testicles of a man. Kashmiri author Basharat Peer has narrated horrifying stories of this form of torture in his book Curfewed Night. Many victims suffered permanent damage; most of them could not muster the courage to approach doctors out of shame and spent their lives in mental agony.

4. One old-timer proudly told me he had invented a technique of masking powder marks on the dead body if they had to kill someone in a fake encounter. A wet towel placed on the body of the victim blocked the muzzle flame as well as trapped the un-burnt powder particles!

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Nine present and former Jadavpur University students were arrested and allegedly severely beaten up on the night of February 7 by police at Narendrapur on the southern fringes of Kolkata, when they were holding a deputation against police action against a Dalit civil society activist. The students were protesting against the detainment and questioning of Dalit civil rights activist Sharadindu Biswas by Narendrapur police on February 4, which they felt amounted to harassment and a curb on the freedom of expression.

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