{"id":100,"date":"2005-11-15T16:17:20","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T20:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/11\/15\/medical-report-confirms-torture\/"},"modified":"2005-11-15T16:17:20","modified_gmt":"2005-11-15T20:17:20","slug":"medical-report-confirms-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/11\/15\/medical-report-confirms-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical report confirms torture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A medical report released on November 7 has confirmed that Chandigarh police tortured<\/A> <\/FONT>Rakesh, a young man accused of theft. <\/FONT><\/P>
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A board of doctors set up by a local court recently to examine Rakesh had revealed that the <\/FONT>youth had received injuries on several body parts which might take several days to heal.<\/FONT><\/EM><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Rakesh reported that police officers tortured him for almost a week in October <\/FONT>after arresting him in connection with a theft case. When he refused to confess to a Rs <\/FONT>45,000 theft, he was beaten with wooden rods and leather belts, and threatened to not to make <\/FONT>the torture public. He was later moved to a guest house and beaten before being dumped <\/FONT>outside a home in Khudda Lahora village. <\/FONT><\/P>
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Lawyers of Human Rights International have written a letter to the local Inspector General of Police demanding punishment of the guilty police officers. <\/FONT>Rakesh is still undergoing treatment.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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