Police abuse and killings of street children in India.
Contributors: Gossman, Patricia; Human Rights Watch (Organization); Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project.; Human Rights Watch/Asia.
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Street children -- Abuse of -- India.; Homeless children -- Abuse of -- India.; Child abuse -- India.; Police -- Complaints against -- India.; Police brutality -- India; Children's rights -- India.
Description: At least eighteen million children live or work on the streets of India, laboring as porters in railway stations or bus terminals, as ragpickers, and as vendors of food, tea, or handmade articles. These street children are routinely subjected to arbitrary and illegal detention, torture, and extortion, and on occassion, murder at the hands of police who engage in these violations of international and Indian law with impunity.

Overview -- Illegal detention -- Torture -- Extortion -- NGO initiatives to address -- Custodial deaths -- The applicable laws -- Conclusion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Written by Arvind Ganesan and edited by Patricia Gossman and others. Cf. Acknowledgments.
"Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project [and] Human Rights Watch/Asia."