Search Results for Tag : torture
Judgments
Compensation for youth tortured in police custody(21.09.2015)
In a case where the police illegally detained and tortured a young man who had applied for a position as a constable in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.....
Tags : Police, custody, torture, compensation
News
Delhi Court Orders Registration of FIR Against Delhi Police Official for Alleged Custodial Torture(30.12.2021)
Delhi Court has ordered for registration of FIR against Delhi Police officials after it was alleged that they indulged in custodial torture and brutal.....
Tags : Delhi Court, Alleged Custodial Torture
Madras HC Upholds Decision of Sessions Court to Award Compensation to Victim of Custodial Torture(24.01.2020)
Madras High Court has upheld the judgment of the Sessions Judge awarding compensation of Rs. 1 Lakh to the victim who suffered torture, bodily injury .....
Tags : Madras High Court, Compensation to Victim of Custodial Torture
P&H HC Marks Inquiry Into Allegations of Illegal Detention and Custodial Torture of Shiv Kumar(17.03.2021)
Punjab and Haryana High Court has marked an inquiry into allegations of illegal detention and custodial torture of labour rights activist Shiv Kumar, .....
Tags : Punjab and Haryana High Court, Illegal Detention and Custodial Torture of Shiv Kumar
Punjab and Haryana HC Issues Notice to Chandigarh Police over Petition Alleging ‘Custodial Torture’(14.10.2015)
Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued a notice of motion to Chandigarh Police on a petition by a Dera Bassi resident alleging that he was brutally .....
Tags : Punjab and Haryana High Court, Chandigarh Police, Custodial Torture
Supreme Court Moots For Need to Have Anti-Torture Law(25.04.2017)
Supreme Court has observed that India's reputation and its extradition requests suffer because it has not ratified the UN convention against torture.
Tags : Supreme Court, Anti-Torture Law
Bom. HC: Custodial Torture is Not Official Duty(28.03.2023)
Bombay High Court while observing that custodial torture is not official duty and no sanction is required to prosecute police officers in cases of dea.....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Custodial Torture, Official Duty, Murder
Supreme Court Dismisses Plea for Directing Centre to Bring Law on Torture(06.09.2019)
Supreme Court has rejected a plea seeking direction to the Centre to enact a suitable stand alone comprehensive legislation based on UN Convention on .....
Tags : Supreme Court, Torture
Bombay HC Rejects Bail Plea of Cop who Resorted to Third-Degree Torture Leading to Custodial Death(22.09.2016)
Bombay HC, while rejecting pre-arrest bail plea of a police officer from Satara, has said that Police personnel who resort to third degree torture lea.....
Tags : Bombay HC, Third-Degree Torture
Calcutta HC Grants Bail To NDPS Accused, Orders Enquiry & Preservation of CCTV Footage(18.05.2022)
Calcutta High Court in a case of Custodial torture, has granted bail to an accused against whom proceedings under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic .....
Tags : Calcutta High Court, Custodial torture, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, custody
Allahabad HC Orders Fair Probe In Ex-Army Man Torture Case(04.10.2021)
Allahabad High Court has ordered a fair investigation, immediate action in the case of an ex-soldier of the Indian Army, who had alleged that he was h.....
Tags : Allahabad High Court, Fair Probe, Ex-Army Man Torture Case
File Responses on Prevention of Torture Bill Within 3 Weeks: SC Directs States, UTs(24.01.2019)
Supreme Court has sought responses and inputs from States and Union Territories on the Prevention of Torture Bill, 2017 within three weeks.
Tags : Supreme Court, Prevention of Torture Bill, 2017
Madhya Pradesh HC Bars Publishing Details of PIL Seeking CBI Probe(18.10.2016)
Madhya Pradesh HC has issued notice to police and CBI and barred the media from publishing contents of a petition filed regarding alleged custodial to.....
Tags : Madhya Pradesh HC, media, RSS, custodial torture
Kerala HC: Medical Practitioners Can Conduct Tests on Accused If Indications of Custodial Torture(20.07.2021)
Kerala High Court has clarified that the circular issued by the Director of Health will not preclude doctors conducting medical examinations of person.....
Tags : Kerala High Court, Custodial Torture
Supreme Court Notices NHRC over Plea Seeking Law on Custodial Torture(10.01.2017)
Supreme Court has sent to notice National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on a plea seeking framing of an effective law to prevent torture and inhuman .....
Tags : Supreme Court , National Human Rights Commission, Custodial Torture
SC on Custodial Torture: Protector Cannot Adopt Brutality(12.02.2021)
Supreme Court has said that beating a person in a police station causes a sense of fear in society, is a matter of great public concern and such bruta.....
Tags : SC, Custodial Torture