peo­ple get vi­o­lent, it will not be on my con­science,” she said in the Ra­jya Sabha.

Seven peo­ple were ar­rested for the mur­der of a 16-year-old Dalit boy, al­legedly by the fam­ily of a girl from his neigh­bour­hood.

The po­lice said the boy had been in a re­la­tion­ship with the 17-year-old girl, but her fam­ily did not ap­prove. The girl’s broth­ers had ear­lier threat­ened the boy and his fam­ily a few times, which they had re­ported to the po­lice.advice, Mr. Gregory fractured and dislocated vertebrae in his spine.  The injury resulted in the development of post-traumatic cervical syringomylia extending from cervical vertebra number four through thoracic vertebra number three.  In lay terms, he had a fluid cavity in his spinal cord that was destroying nerve cells and supporting nerve tissue.  Mr. Gregory experienced progressive deterioration of his nervous system over the years, including atrophy of both hands, a spastic gait with a cane, diminished reflexes in his arms, and a prominent loss of strength in his right foot.


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Dr. Poor recommended surgical drainage of the fluid cavity to halt the continued deterioration from the disease.  Mr. Gregory does not recall ever being told anything about the risks of such a procedure.  He