-The Indian Express The realities of torture and its prosecution in India would temper our expectations from this one development. The Supreme Court needs to ensure robust implementation of its order and simultaneously plug the gaps so that incidents of torture are curtailed. In a bid to curb torture, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court recently mandated that CCTV cameras be installed in police stations and offices of other investigative agencies....
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Poor account for 71% of custodial deaths in India
-The Hindu Celebrities or rich people often get reprieve by claiming to suffer from kleptomania, says anti-torture group Data culled from the annual reports of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) from 1996-97 to 2017-18 have revealed that 71.58% of the custodial deaths in India were of people from poor or marginalised sections of society, said a statement by an anti-torture group issued on Thursday to mark the United Nations Human Rights...
More »Sattankulam custodial deaths | Police tortured Jayaraj and Benicks knowing it will result in death, says CBI charge sheet -B Tilak Chandar
-The Hindu Charge sheet says injuries were caused at station. Madurai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in its charge sheet against the nine policemen accused in the Sattankulam custodial death case, said trader P. Jayaraj and his son J. Benicks were subjected to brutal torture by the policemen, knowing well that it was sufficient to cause their death. The expert opinion received from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), New Delhi, established...
More »We need a root and branch repair of police, guardian agencies to keep them lawful -Maja Daruwala
-The Indian Express At 158, India’s police to population ratio (police staff per 1,00,000 citizens) is one of the worst in the world. It lags well behind its neighbours. A quick glance at the daily news from around the country throws up story after story of police misbehaviour, great and small. Videos uploaded day after day confirm this is no rarity — a horrific double murder in Tamil Nadu, grossly depraved behaviour...
More »Five States including Tamil Nadu recorded over 100 custodial deaths but zero police convictions between 2001-18 -Vignesh Radhakrishnan, Sumant Sen and Naresh Singaravelu
-The Hindu Over 1,700 custodial deaths recorded between 2001 and 2018 nationwide; only 26 policemen convicted The recent death of a father-son duo from Tamil Nadu, allegedly due to custodial violence, has sparked anger across India. While calls for a fair probe are growing, data show that between 2001 and 2018, only 26 policemen were convicted of custodial violence despite 1,727 such deaths being recorded in India. As most such deaths were attributed...
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