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Bihar: Not just Delhi, Patna, Siwan too saw brute police violence against demonstrating students: PUCL
A fact-finding report of the Bihar police brutality against students who were demonstrating peacefully in Patna, Siwan and Sitamarhi reveals that severe beating by lathis, including aiming blows at the private part of women students was a key and shocking feature of the (misconduct) of the Bihar police
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Bihar: Not just Delhi, Patna, Siwan too saw brute police violence against demonstrating students: PUCL
A fact-finding report of the Bihar police brutality against students who were demonstrating peacefully in Patna, Siwan and Sitamarhi reveals that severe beating by lathis, including aiming blows at the private part of women students was a key and shocking feature of the (misconduct) of the Bihar police
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Communal Organisations
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Rule of Law
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