Custodial deaths in India
Custodial deaths in India may refer to the deaths of persons in police custody and also to the deaths of persons in judicial custody while undergoing trial or serving a sentence.
Quotes
edit- Police Officers alone, and none else, can give evidence as regards the circumstances in which a person in their custody comes to receive injuries while in their custody. Bound by ties of a kind of brotherhood, they often prefer to remain silent in such situations and when they choose to speak, they put their own gloss upon facts and pervert the truth. The result is that persons, on whom atrocities are perpetrated by the police in the sanctum sanctorum of the police station, are left without any evidence to prove who the offenders are.
- Supreme Court Justice Y. V. Chandrachud in the verdict of State of Uttar Pradesh v. Ram Sagar Yadav (1985)
- With great power comes greater responsibility.
- Supreme Court Justice N. V. Ramana in the verdict of Yashwant v. State of Maharashtra (2018), as quoted in "Custodial death: SC says with great power comes greater responsibility, raises prison term of cops". Financial Express. 4 September 2018.
- This government does not try to hide anything. Adequate instructions have been given to prevent custodial deaths in future. Henceforth, I assure you that no custodial death will happen in Tamil Nadu.
- Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M. K. Stalin following the death of V. Vignesh, as quoted in "'No custodial deaths will happen in Tamil Nadu': CM Stalin assures safety in jails". India Today. 10 May 2022.
