No holds barred

Truth and justice are casualties as Indian police and Maoist insurgents wage a bitter and dirty war

Photos : Daniel Pepper
It takes Madkam Deva only 20 paces off a dirt footpath cutting through a verdant forest to find the place where large orange ants crawl over a dark maroon stain. Another bloodstain is a few metres away. This is where he saw one villager cut down by police bullets, and then a second collapsing onto the forest floor, he said. ...



















Villagers in Singaram look at pictures of the scene of an encounter in which suspected Maoists died. The survivors' version of events completely contradicts the police account.