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'Compensate youth whose hands were chopped off'

India Gazette (IANS) Sunday 4th March, 2012

The Bihar government has been directed to pay compensation to a 22-old whose hands were chopped off after he failed to repay a loan of Rs.300, an official said Sunday.

"The government should pay him a compensation immediately and the commission will inquire into the episode of how his hands were chopped off," said Rajendra Prasad, a member of the Bihar State Human Rights Commission.

Prasad added that it was a clear case of human rights violation and an inhuman act.

Twenty-year-old Ram Sagar Chandravanshi belongs to an extreme backward caste.

He owed a Rs.300 debt to a powerful man in Kodra village in Bihar's Arwal district, 70 km from Patna.

"When I expressed my inability to repay the debt and requested them to give me some more time, they ordered me to work for a couple of contractors in lieu of the Rs.300 that I owed. But when I refused, it angered them so much that they first beat me badly and then started hitting my hands with an axe, chopping them off 10 days ago," he said.

"I fell unconscious and they threw me in a field," he added. His family admitted him to the hospital.

Two days ago, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ordered a probe into the gruesome incident after the issue was raised in the state assembly by the opposition.

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