8 days of third degree torture by CID
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Justification of 3rd degree torture
Due to increased Human Rights concerns in the country, it was near impossible for police to carry third degree torture of accused under their custody. However, owing to the successful media justification propaganda, they were able to carry out planned torture of His Divine Holiness. The persecution by the State-Police-Media nexus deprived His Divine Holiness the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty as per Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNHR Article 11) of United Nations.
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No food - No water - ridiculed by forcing to eat cow meat
The entire 8-day period, the CID officers did not give His Divine Holiness food or water that he could consume. The CID kept Him hungry. They would bring Him a plate with cow's meat to force Him to eat, ridiculing the religious beliefs of His Divine Holiness. It was done since they knew very well that He was an orthodox practicing Hindu who worshipped the cow. The entire 8 days, His Divine Holiness went without food.
The CID had a clear agenda
The CID had its clear agenda: either eliminate His Divine Holiness or force a false confession from Him to convict Him. To make a person utter a lie, requires more intimidation and torture, than to make him tell the truth. The CID implemented third degree torture on His Divine Holiness, not leaving a fingerprint on Him that might trap them with a hard evidence.
Heavy Lights High Decibel Shrill Sounds
The police installed heavy lights through a special contract just for purpose of torturing Him and forcing a false confession. Long unending sound torture sessions were run to cause deep physical and psychological pain. Tile cutting machine was used to create shrill sounds and asphyxiating dust inside His cell.
Ice-cold water on bare floor
His Divine Holiness was not provided even a mattress in the cell apart from a wet wrapper paper to sit on. He sat, slept and meditated on the bare floor. During night to stop him from sleeping, water mixed with ice was poured in His cell. His Divine Holiness silently endured such inhuman acts.
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