Recently, the division bench of the Bombay High Court had to teach the police a lesson in law, telling them how not to file false FIRs and imparted lessons on how recording conversation in a police station would not become an offence under the stringent Act
Allahabad High Court division bench while hearing a Habeas Corpus Petition filed by Ramu Through Mother Rekha Devi directed the Superintendent of Police, Sitapur to investigate and submit a report within ten days.
Calcutta High Court directed the Counsel for the Eastern Railway to hand over a copy thereof to counsel for the petitioner and “it will be open to the counsel for the petitioner to point out by filing the appropriate material to show if all such steps have been taken on the spot”, said the Court.
The apex court order to have CCTVs in the centres may be an attempt to check police brutality, but it is not practical as torture often takes place in barracks, quarters and safe houses away from cameras.