TORTURE WITH CACTUS
M.P. ACCUSED BOMBAY. May 5. Extraordinary allegations of cruelty to a servant were made at the trial at the Dhulia Sessions Court of a. member of the Bombay Legislative Council named Namdeorao and ten other men. They were accused of culpable homicide in connection with the death of a man who had been in the service of Namdeorao. The former servant was suspected of theft. It was allegefl that, in attempts to extort a confession, he was made to lie upon cactus plants, walked upon, and beaten at various times in the day and night, for four days. He died a few days later. . The widow stated that Namdeorao took her husband away on various , occasions, that, the man was beaten in , an old sugar mill, and that, when he returned home she and his child I picked thorns from his body. The defence was a categorical dei nial of the allegations. It was asserted . that the evidence, had been manufac- , lured for election purposes. Judgment was reserved.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 June 1934, Page 3
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