GS-4PUBLIC ORDER AND DIGNITY OF THE DEAD
A Son, a Piece of Evidence, a Protest Banner: What the Mansa SSP Owed the Body on the Road
This is a second death and a harsher police response in the Mansa agitation, which reached its 15th day on 27 October. The State's power to secure a body for inquest has now collided with a grieving family's use of that body as evidence of the government's failure on drugs. The case raises the GS4 question of how a district police chief balances firmness with compassion.
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