Police interrogation of children as young as nine in a school in Karnataka’s Bidar district in connection with a play enacted to denounce the Citizenship (Amendment) Act constitutes a flagrant abuse of child rights. It is an act of inhumanity a civilised society cannot countenance in any circumstance. Interrogating children intimidates them and may cause them irreversible psychological damage. The police tried to justify that on the ground that they need to collect evidence against parents and teachers.
The BJP government is so intolerant to criticism that it does not even spare children. The Bidar incident shows that the government would

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