KAVITA SINGH’s CUSTODY JURISPRUDENCE UNDER CRIMINAL JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION

Custodial violence is an unfortunate reality. This is a worldwide phenomenon inflicted upon individuals irrespective of age, sex or state of health. It is a threat to human dignity and human rights. It springs out of the perverse desire to cause undue sufferings when there is no possibility of retaliation.
The book, through its seven chapters, discusses the development of law and safeguards against custodial torture in correctional homes, starting from ancient period till today. The work elaborately deals with the types of custody, kinds of prisons, rights of prisoners, protection of vulnerable groups, women and insane prisoners against custodial violence, protection of prisoners against custodial rape, custodial death and fake encounters. It also provides the National Human Rights Commission’s guidelines on arrest and encounter killings.