Inside the trauma ward of a Rajasthan government hospital, doctors in white scrubs scurry past anxious relatives of patients to attend to the more serious cases, while security guards tell visitors to be quiet. In one corner, a man in his late 30s sits anxiously on a wooden bench, staring at his wife blankly, while asking every now and then if she needs anything. Advertising `We want immediate arrest of those policemen… They should be punished, hanged for what they did,` the woman says, her face veiled, as her husband nods. The 35-year-old Dalit woman, a mother of four, has accused policemen at a Churu police station of keeping her in illegal custody for seven days, gangraping her, and...
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