“Three policemen tried to rumble me in a cave in my village. I came back there some months after the panchayat had my father, mother and two sisters killed. I fled to a mission near Mount Abu and hid there. We have a tradition in our village. For hundreds of years we have lived peacefully with leopards. The panchayat wants to stop this. They want to invite rich foreigners to come and shoot the leopards for sport. The high caste clans and the police work together, not just in my village, but all over the state, to suppress poor communities – Hindu and Muslim. My community tried to fight this. So they killed us. But they couldn’t kill me. They tried, but they couldn’t. And the recording on my phone proves it. The policemen who stormed the cave said they would r**e me before killing me. I sho
