Picked up from a village fair in January 2008, she was then only 17 years old. What followed for a seemingly endless nightmare where she was allegedly chained, beaten, raped and tortured in police custody. Repeated visits to the hospital too followed, so did two surgeries. Earlier this year, she was finally acquitted by a court, cleared of all charges, but not before she had lost seven years of her life in jail accused of ambushing and killing 23 policemen along with 230 other Maoists.
