Rajasthan: How a birthdate error sent an Indian teenager to death row
He spent 28 years in prison for murder. Then prosecutors found out he had been a juvenile at the time of…
Last week, we drove through a hot and parched landscape of sand flats, scrubs and wilting trees to reach Jalabsar, a village of 600 homes and 3,000 people in Bikaner in Rajasthan. Here Niranaram, born to a farmer father and homemaker mother, had returned to live with his extended family of four brothers, their wives and a dozen nephews.