Abstract

Custodial violence includes various kinds of torture that a person in prison, police custody as well as judicial custody undergoes due to various reasons. In developing countries like India custodial violence seems to be a serious problem as the majority of the population is still uneducated when it comes to various laws that protect their basic human rights. The objective of this research is To know the experience of victims who committed long term crime and facing custodial torture, to know some long term psychological consequences of custodial torture on victims, to analyze more about laws that preventing the custodial torture. This research follows an Empirical type of research and the sampling method used in this survey is a Convenient sampling method. The primary data which has been analyzed using SPSS with 200 samples collected. Independent variables like age, gender, education, occupation and dependent variables are victims may experience long term as the crime committed against them, categories of psychological torture, sollitary confinement alone in the cell for days on end with minimum environmental stimulation and social interaction effectiveness of law preventing in custodial death, the brazen bull is one of most brutal form of torture and psychological torture includes sollitary confinement and sleep deprivation. Even though the establishment of the 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 have not been reported due to lack of awareness amongst the major population.

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