{"id":124671,"date":"2021-08-09T17:56:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=124671"},"modified":"2021-08-10T10:12:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T04:42:02","slug":"threat-to-human-rights-is-highest-in-police-stations-cji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/threat-to-human-rights-is-highest-in-police-stations-cji\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat to human rights is highest in police stations: CJI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/custodial-torture-still-prevails-nationwide-sensitisation-of-police-officers-needed-cji-7444413\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b> Indian Express<\/b><\/a>,<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G6K8RSLUU.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hindu<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/threat-to-human-rights-bodily-integrity-highest-in-thanas-cji-ramana\/articleshow\/85161232.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Times of India<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chief Justice of India while <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">addressing an event organised by<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/eligibility-for-free-legal-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> National Legal Services Authority (NALSA)<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has said, &#8220;the threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the highest in police stations&#8221;. He also observed that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Custodial violence and other police atrocities are problems that still prevail in our society.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is Custodial Violence?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Custodial violence<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> primarily refers to violence in police and judicial custody. It includes death, rape and torture.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Between 2001 and 2018,<\/strong> 1,727 persons died in police custody. This includes both persons on police\/ judicial remand and those just arrested and not produced before the court. Only 26 policemen were convicted in this period for such deaths.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Except in<\/strong> Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha, no policeman was convicted for such deaths across the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Reasons for Custodial Violence<\/strong>:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Lack of Legal representation: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lack of effective legal representation at police stations is a huge detriment to arrested or detained persons.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Lengthy Judicial Process: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lengthy and expensive judicial processes dissuade the poor and the vulnerable from accessing the justice system.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Digital Divide<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">digital divide has not helped the cause of easy access to justice. Rural and remote areas suffer from a lack of connectivity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Other Facts Mentioned in the Article:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><b>About Access to Justice for Marginalized People or the A2J Project:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Access to Justice Project <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a collaborative effort between the UNDP and Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Aim<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">project focuses on strengthening access to justice for the poor by developing strategies that address barriers to accessing justice in legal, social, economic and political domains.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun BCX0 SCXW71457663\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW71457663\">Terms to know<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun BCX0 SCXW71457663\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW71457663\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"Hyperlink BCX0 SCXW71457663\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/custodial-violence-in-india-13th-nov-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined BCX0 SCXW71457663\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW71457663\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Custodial violence<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"Hyperlink BCX0 SCXW82096506\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nalsa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined BCX0 SCXW82096506\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW82096506\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">National Legal Services Authority (NALSA)<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Indian Express, The Hindu and Times of India What is the News? The Chief Justice of India while addressing an event organised by National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) has said, &#8220;the threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the highest in police stations&#8221;. He also observed that Custodial violence and other police atrocities&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/threat-to-human-rights-is-highest-in-police-stations-cji\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Threat to human rights is highest in police stations: CJI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[8279,329,8790,8658],"class_list":["post-124671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-custodial-violence","tag-fundamental-rights","tag-human-rights-in-india","tag-judgments","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704608178},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}