Genesis of Custodial Violence in India: A Socio- Legal Analysis

Abstract

Custodial violence is an apparatus is used to impose the one will on another and it is a heinous torture towards the arrestee which creates a form of mental and physical impact to the person. This violence is the worst type of human right violation which impacts upon the basic roots of the human society and it promotes the desirable behavior of human being in society and prevents the undesirable behavior of human being in the society. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) under the aegis of newly formed United Nations, which was perhaps the turning point in the history of humanity as it recognized and defined Human Rights in its various contours on a global scale and has since been elaborated in subsequent international treaties, regional human rights declarations, national constitutions and laws.