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Ratiram Manjhi was acquitted of Maoist charges in May 2022, but the shadow of those allegations has not lifted. A civil court in Bokaro cleared him in the Mahuatand police station case in which he had been booked on charges of murder, rioting and offences under the Arms Act and the Criminal Law Amendment Act. The verdict ended a long legal process, but it did not restore his life to what it had been. What remained were years of humiliation, shaped as much by police harassment as by social stigma. The consequences extended beyond him to his family. His two young daughters were denied schooling after a school withdrew their admission, thereby stalling their education for years. |
