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For India’s poor, lockdown policing adds to pandemic hardships

India Delhi police and homeless man

Chennai/Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Poor Indians are bearing the brunt of “pandemic policing” as the country struggles to contain a deadly second wave of COVID-19 cases by imposing stricter curfew rules and curbs on movement, rights advocates said. Hawkers, slum dwellers, food couriers and migrant workers are most likely to fall foul of lockdown rules […]