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Photo: Grieving parents of Pardeep Kumar. Both are blind. On January 27, 2007 Pradeep Kumar, resident of village Cheeti, in Greater Noida belt died in Merrut Medical Hospital. The police picked up the boy two weeks ago from his home. PUCL investigated the circumstances leading to young man’s death.
He died on 27 Jan 2007, due to multiple bodily injuries and the spinal cord broken after he was taken into police custody on the night of 12 January 2007. Read Dr. Pushkar Raj's report on this custoy death: http://www.pucl.org/Topics/custody-deaths/2007/pardeep.html
Photo by Pushkar Raj.