• V. Sorna lakshmi

Custodial violence includes various kinds of torture that a person in prison, police custody as well as judicial custody undergoes due to various reasons. The present study deals with understanding the root cause which lead to custodial violence and the various ways through which this grave injustice can be prevented. In developing country like India custodial violence seems to be serious problem as majority of the population is still uneducated when it comes to various laws that protect their basic human rights. Even though the establishment of National Human Rights Commission has provided a mechanism which can be easily accessed by the poor and helpless victims to get quick relief yet many cases of custodial violence has not been reported due to lack of awareness amongst the major population. The law enforcement agencies are expected to maintain the law and order and protect the rights of individuals but police brutality against under trials, suspects and convicts have been increasing at a shocking rate. In spite of various International conventions, constitutional and statutory provisions protection available to such victims, their inhuman treatment has not come to an end. In this context, a study that focuses on raising the awareness among the common man of the rights remedies available to the victims of custodial violence is the need of the hour. This study seeks to conduct a doctrinal study on various cases on custodial violence in India and to collect the information and try to figure out the total quantity of crime within the country.

Custodial Violence, Crime, Causes, Prevention, Consequences, Torture, Police Custody.

"CUSTODIAL VIOLENCE: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.14-22, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904E04.pdf

"CUSTODIAL VIOLENCE: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp14-22, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904E04.pdf