A STUDY ON CUSTODIAL TORTURE AND THEIR RIGHTS

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  • Heer Nanavati 4th Year BBA LLB Student, Gandhinagar Karnavati University (United World School of Law), Gujarat, India Author

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Custodial, Torture, Human Rights, Police, Prisoners, responsibility, detention

Abstract

“To deny people their human rights are to challenge their every Humanity” 

-Nelson Mandela, South African Civil Right Activist 

This Article is emphasized on the custodial torture and their Rights. Whereas it says that Violence is the centre of any criminal justice system and it is the commencement of its actions. The instigation for this action and its nourishment are vested as a responsibility with the custodians of law. Torture is generally characterized as an instrument to impose the will of the strong over the week by suffering. Police outrages are a normal highlight of the Indian Situation. Basic highlights of infringement of human rights are the torture of arrested persons, the vanishing of suspects who ought to have been in regular police custody, deaths in police encounters and at the police station, and undertrials detained in jails for years without trials. Custodial torture has been crunched to mistreated police control. For the custodial torture, the apex court has adopted an earlier ruling system that allowed to access the convicted prisoners in jail so the society at large would be notified reasons behind the detention and the conditions in which they served as a sentence. 

The below study shows the various fundamentals rights of the prisoners and the various decisions of the Supreme court and High court revealed that the Indian judiciary has made a huge accomplishment in ensuring custodial human rights. 

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11-10-2020

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Heer Nanavati. “A STUDY ON CUSTODIAL TORTURE AND THEIR RIGHTS ”. Journal of Legal Studies & Research, vol. 6, no. 5, Oct. 2020, pp. 202-21, https://journal.thelawbrigade.com/jlsr/article/view/2501.

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