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BHOPAL: Confined to a 10ft-by-10ft room Baijnath Yadav of Harpura Gaur village in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh , remembers little of the outside world. When he was in his late 30s, a fellow villager beat him up after a scuffle over farm work. Upon learning that Baijnath was kept in chains for more than 20 years the patwari informed the local officials, who apprised Sanjay Sharma, an advocate and social activist.“I visited the village on July 21. He has been in fetters for more than two decades where he eats, sleeps and performs daily chores.Baijnath is in imprisonment of sorts in his own house after he turned violent – the genesis of which can be traced to an assault on him. His rehabilitation is also something we are working on with civil rights activists.”Chhatarpur district SP Vineet Khanna said, “It was not in my knowledge..