India’s police stations are human rights threat, says chief justice

Nuthalapati Ramana issues extraordinary rebuke over ‘custodial torture and other police atrocities’

In an extraordinary rebuke over police brutality, India’s chief justice has said the most dangerous places in the country for threats to human rights are police stations.

Nuthalapati Ramana said that rather than being the safest places, “the threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the highest in police stations”.

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This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian.