The slave-owners are hardly ever brought to justice, in a society where the police are too often on the side of the criminal rather than the victim, and the legal system is choked with a backlog of tens of millions of pending cases.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Bant Singh is a brave man with a fine singing voice that used to earn him a living. When his daughter was raped he refused a bribe to let the matter drop, and saw the rapists convicted. Then he stood up to local upper-caste bullies and lost both arms and one leg. “They can destroy my limbs,” he says. “But they can’t destroy my voice.” When his phone rings, his son holds it for him.
