Weekly news lesson 299: 2nd August 2012: Indian police still using truth serum

By Karen Richardson

Use of the controversial drug sodium pentothal to secure confessions is still common in certain regions of India. While several detectives and scientists view the drug, which makes recipients drowsy and less able to lie, as a legitimate means of securing justice for victims, the country’s highest court has labelled it “cruel, inhuman and degrading”.  

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