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Far-right Indian paramilitary forces accused of killing 15-year-old leftist student
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh members [Suyash Dwivedi/Creative Commons]

FAR-RIGHT paramilitary forces linked to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have been accused of killing a 15-year-old student during a temple festival on Wednesday night.

The boy, known as Abhimanyu, was stabbed to death in Kerala’s Alappuzha district. He was reportedly an activist in the left-wing Students’ Federation of India.

The killing took place on the first day of the festival for the Hindu god Vishnu.

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