TN Kuravan families allege torture and sexual assault by Andhra police
Entire families from the Kuravan tribe routinely face arrest and torture for crimes they are unconnected to, revealing the police’s reluctance to shed their prejudice against what were earlier called ‘criminal tribes’.
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13 Andhra cops acquitted in gangrape of 11 tribal women: ‘Slap on our faces’
On August 20, 2007, a 30-member team of an anti-Maoist special branch of police had launched a combing operation in the hamlet. Eleven women belonging to a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group alleged they had been gangraped and assaulted by 13 of the policemen at gunpoint.
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