120 lynched in 9 months
Says Odhikar
Around 120 people were allegedly lynched during January to September this year, said a report of Odhikar, a human rights body, yesterday.
Some 66 other people were killed extra-judicially by law enforcement agencies, it said. Of them, 49 persons were killed in “crossfire/encounters/gunfights.”
The report said 115 persons died in custody. Of them, 84 persons died in jail.
Indian BSF killed as many as 21 Bangladeshi nationals along the borders.
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