79. Induced Asphyxiation

Tile-cutting arranged around His cell continuously let out dust which he had to inhale, choking Him through the night, bringing tears in His eyes, and a constant running nose. He spent nights choking, unable to breathe, covering his nose waiting for dawn when the machine would stop.

Deprivation of Religious Rights

While in prison, His Divine Holiness was denied the right to perform His religious rituals as a spiritual and religious head. The police even disallowed Him to use his rosary beads, ridiculing that He might use it to strangle Himself to death.

Denied right to meet lawyer

His Divine Holiness was deprived of the right to even meet His lawyer. This is a direct violation of the universal human rights to justice which also proclaims the right to freedom of practicing religion, belief in teachings.

Threatening to kill with "Encounters"

The CID officers briefed His Divine Holiness of a technique called "Encounters" where the accused is deliberately provoked to attack a person, and is killed by the person or the police as a choiceless act of protection against him. In India, over 900 cases of "encounters" have been executed by the police. While threatening with an encounter, the police even told Him that He need not even repeat the lie in court, and that He just needed to confess the lie in the interrogation that they were conducting!

Watch this video to see the mob lynching: https://youtu.be/hB6Cemmok64