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Mob violence, police torture justifiable practices feel a significant section of India’s police: Study

Misconceptions and biases against Muslims, Dalits and Adivasis high among police officers surveyed in Gujarat

D*ck or fist

This piece, penned in rage and with a broken heart as a young student of the law in Mumbai read of the news of the brazen acquittal of a murderer-rapist husband by the Chhattisgarh High Court. As a collective media silence and violent trivia twirls around our public discourse, Sabrangindia publishes this as tribute (and solidarity with) hundreds of thousands of young and not so young women who have felt deeply betrayed by this verdict as also by the wider silence around it

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