{"id":198297,"date":"2026-04-13T10:25:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=198297"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:25:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:25:37","slug":"dalit-man-dies-in-police-custody-in-madhya-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/04\/13\/dalit-man-dies-in-police-custody-in-madhya-pradesh.html","title":{"rendered":"Dalit man dies in police custody in Madhya Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-186541\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/dilit-man.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"755\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/dilit-man.jpg 755w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/dilit-man-384x220.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chhatarpur: A 22-year-old Dalit man, Ram Vishal Ahirwar, died in police custody in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the death occurred under mysterious circumstances inside Chandla police station.The family says Ram was tortured to death in custody, adding that police brutally beat their son.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We could hear his screams from outside. When I tried to reach him, they pushed me away,&#8221; she his mother said. The family suspects a cover-up, believing police are attributing the death to suicide or self-poisoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chhatarpur: A 22-year-old Dalit man, Ram Vishal Ahirwar, died in police custody in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh. According to Kashmir Media Service, the death occurred under mysterious circumstances inside Chandla police station.The family says Ram was tortured to death in custody, adding that police brutally beat their son. &#8220;We could hear his screams from outside. When &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/dilit-man.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198298,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198297\/revisions\/198298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}