A man died in Bijnor District Jail two days after the Allahabad High Court had granted him bail, and, according to his family, a day after his wife informed the jail of the bail order and he expressed fear for his life. Calling a death in custody with no satisfactory explanation a matter of serious concern, a Division Bench has directed the Director General of UP Prisons to explain, on affidavit, the circumstances of the death.
Rejecting anticipatory bail to a Railway Protection Force officer accused in a custodial death, the Allahabad High Court observed that “the plague of custodial death does not show any sign of abating,” and held that in such cases the burden of proof should ordinarily lie on the police personnel to rebut the allegations against them. […]
