On June 12 last month, a Mizoram district court sentenced two Border Security Force (‘BSF’) personnel to twenty years of rigorous imprisonment for the 2017 gang rape and acid attack of a Chakma tribal women in the village of Silsuri. The conviction matters because it is perhaps one of the very few instances in which an ordinary civilian court has tried and convicted members of the security forces for crimes of this nature. Read the judgment prim…
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