A team from AIIMS Delhi visited Rajouri’s Badhaal village to investigate a mysterious illness that has claimed 17 lives. No new cases have been reported in the last nine days. Families from the affected village have been relocated to isolated centres, and the village declared a containment zone.
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A Uttar Pradesh court has sentenced three men to death for the 1981 massacre of 24 Dalits in Dehuli. The massacre was allegedly to punish Dalit witnesses against upper-caste criminals. Of the 17 accused, 14 died during the trial, while another is absconding. The remaining three, all in their early 70s, were convicted on Tuesday.
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