The victim's father has filed a petition seeking Rs 5 crore as compensation for the custodial death of his son.

The victim, Arjan Gadhvi (30), died on January 19 while undergoing treatment at a government hospital after allegedly being tortured by police officers, when he was in custody

Mizoram police claim incident has no connection with the present border standoff.

Rajnikanth Dubey alleged he was beaten up and the SHO himself gave electric shocks on his private parts in the police station to make him confess to the crime.

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah and MP Hasnain Masoodi stood holding placards with pictures of men allegedly killed in fake encounters.

Javid Ahmad said police claims are baseless and said his brother had no links with militants.

Sumedh Singh Saini is Punjab's former Director-General of Police who has been indicted in a three-decade-old custodial death case.

Bennicks and Jeyaraj died on June 22 and 23, respectively after alleged torture by Sathankulam Police following their arrest on June 19.

P Jayaraj and his son Benicks, arrested for 'violating' lockdown norms over business hours of their cellphone shop, died at a hospital in Kovilpatti on June 23, with their relatives alleging they were severely thrashed at the Sathankulam police station.

Sub Inspector Raghu Ganesh has been arrested by the Crime Branch of the CID and remanded to judicial custody.

'The government has decided that the CBI will probe the case,' Chief Minister K Palaniswami said.

Custodial death of the two traders has again raised the spectre of police violence in Thoothukudi district and has put the present AIADMK government in a spot.

In most cases, a notice or ruling by the National Human Rights Commission is not paid heed to.

The family alleged police demanded Rs 13 lakh from Shukla and vandalised his home.

Pradeep, 35, was detained at Chhijarsi police post in Pilkhuwa area of Hapur for questioning over the murder of his wife nearly one-and-a-half month ago.

The 10-year-old son of security guard, Pradeep Tomar, alleged his father was mercilessly tortured and beaten to death by policemen at Hapur's police station in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, October 13.

A sessions court in Jamnagar on Thursday sentenced expelled IPS office Sanjiv Bhatt to life imprisonment in the 1990 custodial death case.

Sanjiv Bhatt had on Tuesday moved the apex court, challenging a Gujarat High Court order which had denied his request to summon additional witnesses for examination during the trial.

Mubashir Asad, younger brother of Rizwan, says injury marks were clearly visible all over his body. He says there was a major injury on the left side of the eye and cut marks and deep burn marks on his thighs at the front as well as back. “His tummy was swollen," he says.