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The police officials have a critical role in maintaining the law and order, while upholding human rights. By upholding human rights, the police officials shall effectively perform their duties, while respecting citizen’s fundamental rights and dignity.
The NHRC stated that if the media report was true then it would raise serious issues of human rights violations.
‘Unless an order of remand under Section 187of the BNSS is passed, the initial arrest of the arrestee beyond the period of 24 hours from the time of his arrest will become illegal.’
“The present case involves allegations of gross misconduct of the acting officials and in the opinion of the Court, requires a detailed response qua the chain of events as they unfolded in actuality as also qua the alleged custodial torture that the petitioner was allegedly subjected to.”
A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.
Madras High Court viewed that the suspicion of the petitioner that her husband died of custodial torture is reasonable and cannot be brushed aside easily.
This public flogging took place at Undhela village in Kheda district soon after the Muslim men were arrested on charges of pelting stones on a garba event.
“It takes extraordinary courage for an accused to speak out for the atrocities committed by any police official. Simply because the allegations are coming from the mouth of the accused should not be the reason to outrightly disbelieve him.”
The Supreme Court in State of M.P. v. Shyamsunder Trivedi, (1995) 4 SCC 262 observed that, it would be police officials alone who can only explain the circumstances in which a person in their custody had died.
Tripura High Court: In a public interest litigation concerning custodial torture on a 28-year-old woman in the police lockup, the division bench
Patna High Court: A. M. Badar, J., granted bail to the person arrested on the basis of forcefully extracted confession made during
Third-degree torture The Commission had registered a case on 05-09-2019, on the basis of a complaint dated 28-08-2019 by the victim, alleging