Install CCTV Cameras in Police Stations and Prisons for checking Human Rights abuse
Puneet Batish Advocate
4:53 pm
3
Chief-Justice
,
Landmark-Judgment
,
News-Media
,
Supreme-Court-2015
,
Writ-Petition
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
Before :- T.S. Thakur and R. Banumathi, JJ.Crl. M.P. No. 16086 of 1997 in Crl. M.P. No. 4201 of 1997. D/d. 24.7.2015.
Dilip K. Basu - Petitioner
Versus
State of West Bengal & Ors. - Respondents
WithCrl. M.P. No. 4201 of 1997, 4105 of 1999, 2600 of 2000, 2601 of 2000, 480 of 2001, 3965, 10385 of 2002, 12704 of 2001, 19694 of 2010 in Crl. M.P. No. 4201 of 1997, Crl. M.P. No. 13566 of 2011 in Crl. M.P. No. 16086 of 1997 in Crl. M.P. No. 4201 of 1997, Crl. M.P. No. 15490 of 2014 in Writ Petition(s)(Criminal) No(s). 539 of 1986.
For the Petitioner :- Ms. Suruchii Aggarwal, Advocate.
For the Respondents :- Suryanarayana Singh, AAG, Sanjay R. Hegde, Dr. A.M. Singhvi, Sr. Advocates, Ravi Prakash Mehrotra, Anip Sachthey, Anil K. Jha, B. Krishna Prasad, G. Prakash, Gopal Singh, Rituraj Biswas, Manish Kumar, Guntur Prabhakar, Ms. Indra Sawhney, Naresh K. Sharma, Pranab Kumar Mullick, Amit Bhandari, Mrs. S. Mullick, Sebat Kumar D., Ms. Sushma Suri, T.C. Sharma, T.V. Ratnam, Pravir Choudhary, K.R. Sasiprabhu, Shreekant N. Terdal, D.S. Mahra, Ranjan Mukherjee, Mrs. D. Bharathi Reddy, Khwairakpam Nobin Singh, Ms. Asha Gopalan Nair, Gopal Prasad, Javed Mahmud Rao, Abhijit Sengupta, Jayesh Gaurav, Ratan Kumar Choudhuri, Ms. Bina Madhavan, (For M/s Corporate Law Group) C.D. Singh, Ms. Sakshi Kakkar, Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, P.V. Yogeswaran, P.V. Dinesh, Shibashish Misra, Ansar Ahmad Chaudhary, T. Harish Kumar, Manish Kumar Saran, Anuvrat Sharma, Balaji Srinivasan, Ajay Pal, Ms. Pragati Neekhra, Gunnam Venkateswara Rao, Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Sunil Fernandes, K.V. Jagdishvaran, Ms. G. Indira, M. Yogesh Kanna, Jayant Patel, Chandra Prakash, Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Z.H. Isaac Haiding, Ashok Kumar Singh, Mrs. K. Enatoli Sema, Edward Belho, Amit Kumar Singh, Ms. A. Subhashini, Advocates.
JUDGMENT
T.S. Thakur, J. - In D.K. Basu etc. v. State of West Bengal etc., 1997(1) R.C.R.(Criminal) 372 : (1997) 1 SCC 416 [D.K. Basu, (1997) 1 SCC 416] this Court lamented the growing incidence of torture and deaths in police custody.
