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The Birdman of Ghaziabad

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After an inmate in an Indian jail died during police questioning, authorities at first blamed his demise on tuberculosis. But after an autopsy showed the prisoner was murdered, jailers tried to pressure another inmate in the Ghaziabad prison into confessing to the crime. When he refused, guards reportedly killed about 100 pigeons the man had been feeding for the past two years by twisting their necks.