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GS-4PROPORTIONALITY AND USE OF FORCE

Three Protesters, Three Pellet Wounds and a Force That Says It Wasn't There

The pellet injuries have reopened a debate India has had before, mostly in the context of Kashmir, about whether a weapon this indiscriminate has any legitimate place in mainland crowd control. Three hospitalised protesters, a flat police denial, a since-launched CRPF inquiry and a quiet Centre directive to stop using the weapon together suggest the SOP-versus-practice gap, rather than any single officer's misconduct, is the…

Sub TopicPELLET GUN INJURIES AT JANTAR MANTAR PROTEST…SourceINDIAN EXPRESS
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GS-4INSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND EVIDENTIARY TRUST

A Man Died in Police Custody. Whose Evidence Do You Believe?

A custodial death in Thoothukudi has triggered family protests and viral video allegations of police assault, days after another custodial death was reported in a Nagercoil prison. The police have released a CCTV-and-medical-certificate defence, while the family has produced a video statement from Arunachalam himself before he died. The case sits inside a wider pattern of custodial deaths in Tamil Nadu and India's continuing…

Sub TopicCUSTODIAL DEATH, POLICE INVESTIGATING ITS OWN PERSONNEL…SourceTHE HINDU
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-4POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY AND DUE PROCESS

SC orders FIR, SIT investigation into 'custodial death' of Ahmedabad man

The order matters because it is a case where the state's own evidence - a clean post-mortem, CCTV, an ongoing magisterial inquiry - was not treated as sufficient by the Supreme Court to close the question and the Court instead created an investigative structure independent of the very department accused of causing the death.

Sub TopicCUSTODIAL DEATH INVESTIGATION - INSTITUTIONAL SELF-PROBE…SourceSUPREME COURT OF INDIA
UPSC Relevance9/10
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