Jhansi: To hold the government responsible for the violent and brutal police beating of a disabled man and his subsequent death, Bundelkand Viklang through the Socio-Legal Information Centre, filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Allahabad High Court in July 2011. The PIL was filed against local actors including the Railway Police Force, the General Railway Police, and the Railway Hospital in Jhansi, as well as the Ministry of Railways in New Delhi and the North Central Railway in Allahabad who oversee the functioning and training of Railway Police. On April 24, 2011, the Railway Police escalated an argument between a mentally disabled man and a clerk at the Jhansi Railway Station. Rather than treating the obviously disabled man in an humane manner, and in accordance with basic notions of due process and liberty, the Railway Police instead responded with excessive force and inhumanity, tying the victim to a pole on the Railway platform. After freeing himself from the pole, the agitated victim destroyed railway property. The officers then hog-tied and repeatedly kicked the victim in the head in front of a large crowd, making a public spectacle out of him. The victim was eventually taken to Jhansi Medical College Hospital, where he died three days later from internal injuries and brain hemorrhaging. Where the officers should have treated the victim with extraordinary care in light of his disability, instead they discriminated against him with unbridled cruelty, and despite video footage depicting the officer’s brutality, the Gov’t has failed to take any meaningful action against the authorities involved. Such treatment is in clear violation of the Indian Constitution, the Persons with Disabilities Act, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and international human rights treaties such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) which India ratified in 2007. The PIL demands justice and accountability for the violent treatment of the victim, whose identity has still not been ascertained or disclosed by the authorities. In addition to the dismissal and criminal prosecution of the officers involved, remedies sought include police training and guidelines regarding the non-discriminatory and humane treatment of persons with disabilities, particularly populations with mental disorders who are often abandoned in public places.