Pursuant to the directions of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) vide proceedings dated 26.04.2019, a 15-year-old Dalit boy who had been victimized by a Uttar Pradesh Police Constable Sanjesh Yadav in Hathras district, received interim compensation of Rs.1.5 lakh in May 2019. As per report dated 18.07.2019 submitted by the Superintendent of Police, Hathras, […]
That autopsies are critical for the administration of justice is undisputed. In cases warranting death sentence, autopsy reports determine the issue of death or life. Yet, autopsy reports in India are often doctored by the medical professionals, raising serious questions about administration of justice. On 2 August 2013, the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR)submitted […]
Prisons in India are synonymous with deplorable conditions amounting to inhuman and degrading treatment and deaths of the prisoners from denial of basic medical facilities to torture. Prison reform is the least priority of the society and the State. Would Justice (retd) Amitava Roy Committee therefore be able to reform the shameful prisons of India? […]
On 21 June 2018, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) directed the State Government of Mizoram through its Chief Secretary to pay Rs. 3 lakhs to next of kin (NoK) of deceased Shebaram Reang who was tortured to death in the custody of Mizoram police and India Reserve Police at Kanhmun police station in Mamit […]
Sessions Case No. 917/2012 clubbed with Sessions Case No. 916/2012 (RC.5(S)/08/CBI/SCB /Chennai) Vide judgment and order dated 25.07.2018, the Addl.Sessions Judge/Special Judge of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Sri. J. Nazar convicted six officials of the Kerala Police viz. Police Constable Jithakumar (Accused No.1), Police Constable Sreekumar S.V. (Accused No.2), Police Constable Soman (Accused […]
On 26.04.2013, Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the death of Shebaram Reang (23), s/o Sotrogun Reang due to alleged torture in the custody of Mizoram Police and India Reserve Police at Kanhmun police station in Mamit district, Mizoram on 20.04.2013. The NHRC registered […]
On 12 October 2011, Asian Centre for Human Rights filed a complaint with the NHRC with respect to the custodial death of Lallu Nayka (42 years) at Pardi police station in Valasad district of Gujarat on 22 September 2011. He was reportedly a witness in an unsolved murder case. On the night of 21 September […]
On 23 April 2013, Asian Centre for Human Rights filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the custodial death of Virendra Kumar Mishra due to alleged torture at Hasanganj Police station in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh on the night of 18 April 2013. The deceased was picked up for interrogation in a […]
