Custodial Torture

A tribal man's claim on Saturday that he was tortured in custody and forced to confess to some thefts, led to the Opposition Congress and AISF, the youth wing of CPI and an ally of the ruling LDF, demanding action against the personnel concerned.

The threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the "highest in police stations", Chief Justice of India Justice N V Ramana said at a function today, expressing concern about custodial torture.

The Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana on Sunday expressed his concerns over the increasing cases of custodial torture and police atrocities in the country and said that the threat to human rights and bodily integrity is the highest at the police

Anti-CAA activist Akhil Gogoi, in a letter from jail on Tuesday, alleged physical and mental torture in custody and claimed that he was offered instant bail by NIA interrogators if he joined either the RSS or BJP.

Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission has summoned State DGP over allegations made by Bhopal BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur that she was tortured in custody.

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.

The young man detained on Friday by farmers at Singhu on the Delhi border - who accuse him of conspiring to incite violence during their proposed Republic Day tractor rally in Delhi - alleged today that he was "tortured" while in their custody

The death of a junior engineer (JE) of the Chhattisgarh power department, who was one of the suspects in a murder case, has raised allegations of custodial torture by the police in Surajpur district.

A Tamil Nadu man and his son who died after their arrest for allegedly violating the coronavirus lockdown in June, were tortured for over six hours by policemen who "wanted to teach them a lesson" in how to behave with cops, the CBI has said in a chargesheet on the custodial deaths that angered the nation.

The West Bengal government on Wednesday filed an appeal before a division bench of the Calcutta High Court challenging a single bench judgement ordering a second post mortem examination on the body of a man who allegedly died in judicial custody "due to torture".

The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered a second postmortem examination on the body of a man who died in judicial custody, on a prayer by his brother claiming that he was tortured in a correctional home in Purba Medinipur district where he was lodged.

A local court in Bhubaneswar held a midnight hearing on Thursday and decided to send an army Major, arrested in a dowry torture case, to army custody instead of jail.

Nine policemen have named in a chargesheet filed by the CBI in a case of alleged custodial death in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin. In the case that was widely condemned for alleged police brutality, Jeyaraj and his son Beniks were allegedly tortured by the police on the night of 19 June, before they died in a hospital.

A 40-year-old man arrested on charges of raping a minor girl was allegedly found hanging with a bedsheet inside the lock-up of Samaypur Badli police station following which a constable has been suspended, police said on Sunday.

All internet services have been snapped in north Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town after death of a shopkeeper, allegedly in police custody, led to protests. The family has alleged that Irfan Ahmad Dar was tortured to death after he and his brother, Javid Ahmad, were picked up by police from their shop on Tuesday afternoon.

A tribal man's claim on Saturday that he was tortured in custody and forced to confess to some thefts, led to the Opposition Congress and AISF, the youth wing of CPI and an ally of the ruling LDF, demanding action against the personnel concerned.

The threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the "highest in police stations", Chief Justice of India Justice N V Ramana said at a function today, expressing concern about custodial torture.

The Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana on Sunday expressed his concerns over the increasing cases of custodial torture and police atrocities in the country and said that the threat to human rights and bodily integrity is the highest at the police

Anti-CAA activist Akhil Gogoi, in a letter from jail on Tuesday, alleged physical and mental torture in custody and claimed that he was offered instant bail by NIA interrogators if he joined either the RSS or BJP.

Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission has summoned State DGP over allegations made by Bhopal BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur that she was tortured in custody.

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.

The young man detained on Friday by farmers at Singhu on the Delhi border - who accuse him of conspiring to incite violence during their proposed Republic Day tractor rally in Delhi - alleged today that he was "tortured" while in their custody

The death of a junior engineer (JE) of the Chhattisgarh power department, who was one of the suspects in a murder case, has raised allegations of custodial torture by the police in Surajpur district.

A Tamil Nadu man and his son who died after their arrest for allegedly violating the coronavirus lockdown in June, were tortured for over six hours by policemen who "wanted to teach them a lesson" in how to behave with cops, the CBI has said in a chargesheet on the custodial deaths that angered the nation.

The West Bengal government on Wednesday filed an appeal before a division bench of the Calcutta High Court challenging a single bench judgement ordering a second post mortem examination on the body of a man who allegedly died in judicial custody "due to torture".

The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered a second postmortem examination on the body of a man who died in judicial custody, on a prayer by his brother claiming that he was tortured in a correctional home in Purba Medinipur district where he was lodged.

A local court in Bhubaneswar held a midnight hearing on Thursday and decided to send an army Major, arrested in a dowry torture case, to army custody instead of jail.

Nine policemen have named in a chargesheet filed by the CBI in a case of alleged custodial death in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin. In the case that was widely condemned for alleged police brutality, Jeyaraj and his son Beniks were allegedly tortured by the police on the night of 19 June, before they died in a hospital.

A 40-year-old man arrested on charges of raping a minor girl was allegedly found hanging with a bedsheet inside the lock-up of Samaypur Badli police station following which a constable has been suspended, police said on Sunday.

All internet services have been snapped in north Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town after death of a shopkeeper, allegedly in police custody, led to protests. The family has alleged that Irfan Ahmad Dar was tortured to death after he and his brother, Javid Ahmad, were picked up by police from their shop on Tuesday afternoon.