Violation Of Human Rights In India

Washington: A human rights origination has changed that torture in India was more pervasive than in many authoritarian countries in Asia. Asia Watch, part of the larger American Human Rights Watch, in a report released here entitled “Prison conditions in India”, asserted that even if India was the world’s largest democracy with free elections and a multi-party election system etc., “something has gone wrong in India”, because checks and balances of democracy were not working. The slim report, which Asia Watch declares was written without the cooperation of the Indian Government, concludes that in areas outside those where emergency regulations prevail, criminal suspects from India’s underclasses, arrested for relatively minor offences, are more likely to be the victims of police brutality than prisoners who have committed violent crimes against the State. The report is based on a two-week visit to India in October last Your by Aryeh Neier, Executive Director of Human Rights match, and David Rothman, professor of society and medicine at Columbia University, who were separately detained briefly by officers of the Bombay police special branch and interrogated about their purposes, itinerary and identity of those they had met in India. (Indian Express, April 9).