Custodial Death

A UN expert said she is devastated to hear about the death of Stan Swamy in custody, saying there is no reason for a human rights defender to be denied his rights and that his death will forever remain a stain on India's human rights record.

Over a week since Stan Swamy passed away in judicial custody in a Mumbai hospital after being denied bail, Left parties and other organisations on Thursday staged a protest and sat in dharna outside the Raj Bhavan here in Ranchi.

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said the death of Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case accused Jesuit priest Stan Swamy in custody cannot be justified even if Maoists are "more dangerous than Kashmiri separatists".

Two police officers have been suspended on Tuesday after the custodial death of a 21-year-old man in Asansol, West Bengal.

A day after activist Stan Swamy's death in custody, senior opposition leaders, including Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar and National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, have written to the President.

Stan Swamy died in custody at a hospital in Mumbai on Monday and he awaited bail on medical grounds.

Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar, arrested in a murder case, has been sent to four days in police custody today. The wrestler was arrested last week for his alleged involvement in the death of a 23-year-old wrestler at Delhi's Chhatrasal Stadium, along

Manipur-based journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem, who is in police custody for a social media post earlier last week alluding the death of a senior BJP leader due to to COVID-19, has been charged with the stringent National Security Act (NSA).

Sachin Waze - suspended since 2003 over the alleged custodial death of a bomb blast accused - was appointed to the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) in June last year by ex-top cop Param Bir Singh, despite objections from the then Joint CP (Crime)

The Delhi High Court Wednesday termed as "sketchy" a status report filed by the Aam Aadmi Party government on the death of a man in judicial custody for alleged theft of a vehicle, saying it does not say what transpired between his arrest and his hospitalisation.

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) today named 33 people, including actress Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik, in a chargesheet filed before a special court in Mumbai in a case related to the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput last year. The document of nearly 12,000 pages has statements recorded of more than 200 witnesses.

The two people arrested in connection with the death of two teenage girls at an Unnao village were sent to 14-days judicial custody by a court on Saturday.

A man and a boy have been taken into custody over the deaths of two girls in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao on Wednesday. A massive investigation was launched after three girls aged 16, 15, and 14, all cousins, were found in a field hours after their family realised they were missing. Two of them died in hospital and a third is critical.

The death of a youth allegedly in police custody in the Buxa area here triggered protests by locals who blocked a national highway and indulged in stone-pelting, leading to injuries to several policemen.

Custodial violence which lead to the death of a person is "abhorrent" and "not acceptable in the civilized society", the Supreme Court on Thursday said, while refusing to compound the offence of two policemen, accused of assaulting a man, who later died due to injuries in 1988 in Odisha.

A UN expert said she is devastated to hear about the death of Stan Swamy in custody, saying there is no reason for a human rights defender to be denied his rights and that his death will forever remain a stain on India's human rights record.

Over a week since Stan Swamy passed away in judicial custody in a Mumbai hospital after being denied bail, Left parties and other organisations on Thursday staged a protest and sat in dharna outside the Raj Bhavan here in Ranchi.

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said the death of Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case accused Jesuit priest Stan Swamy in custody cannot be justified even if Maoists are "more dangerous than Kashmiri separatists".

Two police officers have been suspended on Tuesday after the custodial death of a 21-year-old man in Asansol, West Bengal.

A day after activist Stan Swamy's death in custody, senior opposition leaders, including Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar and National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, have written to the President.

Stan Swamy died in custody at a hospital in Mumbai on Monday and he awaited bail on medical grounds.

Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar, arrested in a murder case, has been sent to four days in police custody today. The wrestler was arrested last week for his alleged involvement in the death of a 23-year-old wrestler at Delhi's Chhatrasal Stadium, along

Manipur-based journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem, who is in police custody for a social media post earlier last week alluding the death of a senior BJP leader due to to COVID-19, has been charged with the stringent National Security Act (NSA).

Sachin Waze - suspended since 2003 over the alleged custodial death of a bomb blast accused - was appointed to the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) in June last year by ex-top cop Param Bir Singh, despite objections from the then Joint CP (Crime)

The Delhi High Court Wednesday termed as "sketchy" a status report filed by the Aam Aadmi Party government on the death of a man in judicial custody for alleged theft of a vehicle, saying it does not say what transpired between his arrest and his hospitalisation.

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) today named 33 people, including actress Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik, in a chargesheet filed before a special court in Mumbai in a case related to the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput last year. The document of nearly 12,000 pages has statements recorded of more than 200 witnesses.

The two people arrested in connection with the death of two teenage girls at an Unnao village were sent to 14-days judicial custody by a court on Saturday.

A man and a boy have been taken into custody over the deaths of two girls in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao on Wednesday. A massive investigation was launched after three girls aged 16, 15, and 14, all cousins, were found in a field hours after their family realised they were missing. Two of them died in hospital and a third is critical.

The death of a youth allegedly in police custody in the Buxa area here triggered protests by locals who blocked a national highway and indulged in stone-pelting, leading to injuries to several policemen.

Custodial violence which lead to the death of a person is "abhorrent" and "not acceptable in the civilized society", the Supreme Court on Thursday said, while refusing to compound the offence of two policemen, accused of assaulting a man, who later died due to injuries in 1988 in Odisha.