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A court in southern India has convicted 269 police and forest officials of torturing and abusing more than 100 low-caste Dalits during a raid in 1992.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Officials went to the village of Vachathi in Tamil Nadu state looking for smuggled sandalwood.<\/p>\n

Over two days, 18 women were raped, more than 100 Dalits were abused and their homes and cattle looted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seventeen officials were found guilty of rape and the rest were convicted of “atrocities against Dalits”.<\/p>\n

Nearly 100 of those convicted are policemen. Of the 269 convicted, 54 died during the course of the trial.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The court has sentenced all of those convicted: 12 men were given 10 years in prison and five were given seven years each. The remainder were given jail terms of between two and five years.<\/p>\n

Vachathi is close to Sathyamangalam forest which was the hunting ground of sandalwood smuggler and elephant poacher Veerappan.<\/p>\n

On June 20, 1992, police and forest department officials raided Vachathi following reports that the villagers were involved in sandalwood smuggling, the BBC Tamil’s TN Gopalan reports from Madras (Chennai).<\/p>\n

The team was made up of 155 forest officials, 108 policemen and six officials of the revenue department.<\/p>\n

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation [CBI] says they ran amok, thrashing men, women and children, and demolishing huts.<\/p>\n

Many villagers were taken into custody and some of the women were raped, the CBI said.<\/p>\n

Officials initially denied any wrongdoing and took a long time to register a case.<\/p>\n

It was handed over to the CBI following campaigns by civil society activists and left-wing political parties, our correspondent says.<\/p>\n

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