Topic: Police Custody
“Can’t trust police blindly”: Family of Kashmiri youth who killed in custody
Shafiqa had purchased new clothes for her son, unaware that he wouldn’t be alive the next day, on Eid. Since then, she has been clinging to his last memory, a newly purchased shirt, that he was supposed to wear on Eid.
Custodial torture of two couples from Denotified Tribe; Gujarat HC orders probe
The Gujarat high court has ordered a probe into the custodial torture of two couples belonging to a Denotified Tribe.
UP: Journalist booked for ruckus over EVMs replacement alleges torture by cops
A journalist who was arrested after he alleged EVMs were being replaced in Uttar Pradesh's Agra, has accused the police of torturing him in custody.
Custodial death of Altaf: Allahabad HC directs second autopsy
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday directed a second autopsy of the body of Muslim youth Altaf -who was died during police custody in Uttar Pradesh's Kasganj- by a team of doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi.
UP: Tribal boy dies of assault in custody, three policemen suspended
Three policemen were suspended in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district on Sunday after a group of villagers protested against the death of a 17-year-old Tribal boy. Rahul, a resident of Indira Nagar village in Sampurnanagar, breathed his last four days after he was brutally beaten in police custody.
“Don’t you know how powerful we are?,” TN police asked Dalit man who died in custody
A Dalit man with a disability, Prabhakar, in Tamil Nadu’s Salem district was found dead in police custody on 12 January after he, along with his wife, was picked up from their home on allegations of theft and faced police torture in custody.
