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About Thoothukudi and Other Custodial Police Violence During Lockdown: Part 4

A documentation of the custodial deaths during lockdown that also looks for the answer to some such questions around the class nature, caste nature and religious nature of such deaths. This is the fourth part of the Groundxero report.   The Thoothukudi murders have once again drawn our attention to custodial and other forms of violence perpetrated […]


  • July 2, 2020
  • 5:09 pm
  • groundxero
  • News

The Custodial Death of Jayanta Borah and the Silence of the National Media

The recent custodial murder of the father-son duo, by the police in Sathankulam (Thoothukudi, Tamilnadu), has rightly created huge outburst of public shock and outrage in the media, the social media and the civil society, the focus being the inhuman torture including sexual assault inside police custody for just defying lockdown regulations.   The Thoothukudi […]