“Death by agents of the State is not a hazard of life only in the northeast and Kashmir. In what is known as the ‘red corridor’ of India, where the extreme Left armed group, the Communist Party of India (Maoist), operates, instances of extrajudicial killing and detention leading to custodial death are quite common. In 2008, the Supreme Court directed the Chhattisgarh government to file an Action Taken Report on the findings of the National Human Rights Commission about extrajudicial killings in the state. Jharkhand has one of the highest numbers of detentions and human rights violations.”