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20        <p class="kicker">Records are destroyed on a schedule, not on a decision</p>
21        <h2 style="font-size:clamp(1.75rem,6vw,2.75rem)">Send a preservation letter</h2>
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23          Four written requests, to four Bihar police offices, asking that control-room logs,
24          wireless logs, CCTV and any body-worn footage from 21 to 27 July 2026 be kept rather than
25          overwritten. Fill your details in once and each letter opens in your mail window,
26          addressed, with the text in it. You read it and press send.
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36          <p class="kicker">What these are</p>
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39              A preservation representation is <strong>not a statutory instrument</strong>. It
40              compels nothing, and it is not an RTI application, so no clock starts when you send
41              one. Its value is narrower and worth stating plainly: once an office has been told in
42              writing that identified records are the subject of an inquiry, the destruction of
43              those records after that date is itself a documentable fact, with a date on it. That
44              is the whole mechanism.
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47              The reason to send one now is that the police action of this period is before the
48              Supreme Court, which constituted a five-member High Powered Enquiry Committee by an
49              order reported 18 August 2026. Records of this kind are liable to be material to that
50              inquiry, and a record lost to a routine retention cycle is not recoverable.
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55          <p class="kicker">Before you send one</p>
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58              <li><strong>Check who currently holds the office.</strong> This archive does not hold
59                the officeholders' names and does not guess them. A letter to a misidentified
60                officer can be ignored for a good reason.</li>
61              <li><strong>Read it.</strong> The Munger letter deliberately does not assert that
62                police force was used at Munger, because the archive does not establish it
63                (<span class="mono">INC-BIH-003</span>, UNVERIFIED). Do not firm that up.</li>
64              <li><strong>Keep the proof.</strong> Ask for a delivery receipt and keep the sent
65                item. It is weaker than a speed post receipt, which is why post is still better
66                wherever an address is known. One of these four has an address.</li>
67              <li><strong>Nothing you type here leaves this browser.</strong> Your name and address
68                are kept in local storage so you do not retype them four times, and they go into
69                your own outgoing mail. There is no account here and no server of ours in the path.</li>
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79      <p class="kicker">Your details</p>
80      <h3 style="margin:0.3rem 0 0.4rem">Fill these in once</h3>
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82        The drafts leave these blank rather than invent them, and the send buttons stay off until
83        every one is filled. A letter that reaches a public office with
84        <span class="mono">[sender name]</span> still in it is worse than no letter.
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92      <p class="kicker">The four letters</p>
93      <h3 style="margin:0.3rem 0 0.4rem">Siwan first, if you send only one</h3>
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95        Siwan is the best-evidenced of the Bihar incidents here
96        (<span class="mono">INC-SIW-001</span>, CORROBORATED, resting on the State of Bihar's own
97        affidavit to the Supreme Court), it involves the discharge of firearms and injuries, and it
98        had no representation queued until one was written for it.
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108          <p class="kicker">Where these addresses come from</p>
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111              The official Bihar Police website, <span class="mono">police.bihar.gov.in</span>,
112              retrieved 18 September 2026. The district officer directory is not a page you can
113              link to: it ships inside the site's own application bundle, whose filename is
114              content-hashed and changes on every rebuild, so the citation is the site and the date
115              rather than a URL.
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118              <strong>Munger is independently cross-confirmed.</strong>
119              <span class="mono">munger.nic.in</span> gives the same email, the same office number
120              and the same mobile, and adds a postal address. Two official sources agreeing on one
121              district is the reason to trust the directory for the other three; it is not proof of
122              them. At the time of retrieval <span class="mono">patna.nic.in</span>,
123              <span class="mono">katihar.nic.in</span> and <span class="mono">siwan.nic.in</span>
124              were all returning HTTP 503, so none of those three could be cross-checked.
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129          <p class="kicker">Sending by email at all</p>
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132              Every one of these addresses is <span class="mono">@nic.in</span> or
133              <span class="mono">@gov.in</span>, so they are government mail systems, and those are
134              the systems most likely to check SPF. That would have been a problem before: the
135              domain's own SPF record was wrong. Checked 18 September 2026 it reads
136              <span class="mono">v=spf1 include:secureserver.net include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all</span>,
137              which authorises the servers the domain actually sends from.
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140              You are sending from your own address, not ours, so that record governs our mail
141              rather than yours. If your mail is rejected, send from a different provider or post it.
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148        <p><strong>A copy for central Patna.</strong> The two Patna incidents, JP Golambar and
149        Dakbungalow Square, are both in central Patna, so the City SP (Central),
150        <span class="mono">[email protected]</span>, 0612-2219423, is the officer closest to
151        the records. A copy there is reasonable. The SSP stays the addressee.</p>
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