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Uttar Pradesh: NHRC recommends Rs 1 lakh for custodial death victim Virendra Kumar Mishra

January 16, 2018April 19, 2018 ACHR Comment(0)

On 23 April 2013, Asian Centre for Human Rights filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the custodial death of Virendra Kumar Mishra due to alleged torture at Hasanganj Police station in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh on the night of 18 April 2013. The deceased was picked up for interrogation in a […]

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