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Opening the Black Box of India’s Internal Security State

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The Public Acceptability of Extrajudicial Violence in India

There has been a raucous debate about the use of so-called encounter killings, right? And we've seen a spate of them in the state of UP, involving mafia politician Atik Ahmed and his family. Milan Tewish: Why is there such public acceptability of this kind of extrajudicial violence? He says criminal politicians are widely accepted and popular but their killing isn't unpopular either.

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