This covers custodial deaths, police atrocities, encounter killings, illegal detention and disappearances.

Their records show a total of 3,197 complaints, including allegations of 1,105 "custodial deaths," 1,248 "innocent killings" and 512 "disappearances."

According to the state human rights commission that custodial deaths is in a rising stage in Kerala also.

We don't have custodial deaths here.

Human rights activists consider these encounter killings, together with torture by police of prisoners in lock-ups, and custodial deaths of prisoners to be gross human rights violations.

The human rights situation improved, with only one custodial death, and no custodial disappearances.

He was accused of interfering in the CID investigation of the custodial death of one Khwaja Yunus, but was later exonerated.

The report said "in Kashmir, arbitrary arrests, detention, torture and custodial deaths, rape and midnight raids into homes and disappearances have become routine".

Randeep is blamed for the custodial death and suspended from the case.

Roy is known for fighting against alleged state atrocities, where victims -often among India's poorest citizens- report extrajudicial killings, custodial death, rape, mysterious disappearances, and police torture.