CUSTODIAL VIOLENCE AND LEGISLATIVE POLICY IN INDIA: AN LEGAL OVERVIEW

Abstract

Custodial violence includes various kinds of torture that a person in prison, police custody as well as judicial custody undergoes due to various reasons. Violence is an apparatus is used to impose the one will on another and to feels the power and superiority over other. For that reason, the government has set up a way for the poor and vulnerable victims to get prompt relief through the National Human Rights Commission. The government has also complied with a number of protective standards set forth by international agreements, constitutional provisions, and statutory laws, but the number of cases of violence against inmates is rising daily.