when the villagers denied knowing the whereabouts of suspected maoist activists, they were allegedly beaten severely in public with sticks and subjected to stinging with nettles.
and thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
the methods of torture reported include repeated beatings, beatings to the soles of the feet, the placing of nettles (shishnu) on the body and the use of rollers on the thighs.