Although now confined to border areas against suspected rebels and terrorists, it’s only a matter of time before it is more widely practised against other elements in the rest of the country, since it is considered ‘clean torture’, leaving no marks or scars behind.
Here is an Al Jazeera English article revealing more shocking information and data on custodial torture and deaths. Public pressure to ratify the 1997 International Convention against Torture which India has signed will help those in custody. It’s not fitting that the world’s largest democracy, is one of only nine countries not to yet implement its provisions. “Assam forces accused of waterboarding detainees” http://aje.io/5nrhd Roland Francis Toronto
