Human Rights Violations in Police Custody

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Human rights are basic rights of every individual against the state or any other public authority as a member of the human family irrespective of any other consideration. Thus every individual of the society has the inherent right to be treated with dignity in all situations including arrest and keeping in custody by the police. In spite of various international and national legal standards for the protection of rights of persons in police custody, human rights violations in police custody are endemic in India and are tarnishing the image of India abroad.

Thought the academic world and judiciary have become conscious of the need of a the causes of human rights violations in police custody, its importation into the realm of Human Rights, on any systematic scale, is not yet attempted. In the field of Human Rights, a deep study of the causes of human rights violations in police custody from the legal standpoint has far received little attention.

This book is intended to investigate the causes of human rights violations in police custody and abuse of their authority by using third degree and inhuman methods on persons in their custody. Further it concentrates on the ways by which the police personnel can be made duty-bound and thereby make them withdraw themselves from committing custodial torture and make them aware of the need for protecting the human rights values.

Contents are:Police-A Historical Perspective; A Glimpse of the History of Human Rights Violations by Police; Custodial Violence and Persecution in Lock Ups; Other Human Violations; Victims of Police Excesses; Human Rights Violations; Endeavour to Prevent Human Rights Violations; Combating Human Right Violations; Conclusion and Suggestions.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR N. Krishna Kumar

Dr. N. Krishna Kumar (b.August 1970) son of Late S.K. Nataraja Pillai, obtained his Doctoral degree in Human Rights, from the School of Legal Studies of Cochin University of Sciences and Technology, Kerala, after having passed Post Graduate Diploma in Criminal Justice Administration from the University of Kerala in first rank. He got his LL.M with specilalization of International Law, LL.B and B.Sc (Chemistry) from the same university. He started his career as Advocate in 1994 and as part-time lecturer in law in 1996. Later he joined in the regular service in 2003 and continues his teaching profession in Government Law College, Thiruvanathapuram. His publications include Jurisprudence and Legal Theory, Land Laws, Code of Civil Procedure, Rank file for criminal Judicial Service Examination, Rank file for Munsiff / Magistrate Examination etc. in addition to research papers reputed journals. At present he is doing a project on Reforming Prisoners.