Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Custodial Death Pgp1
Custodial Death Pgp1
DEATH
Professor & Lawyer Puttu Guru Prasad
VVIT – Nambur – 93 94 96 98 98
CUSTODIAL DEATH
A death in custody is a death of a
person in the custody of the police,
prison service or other authorities.
deaths resulting from police or
prison officers attempting to detain
a criminal or a person escaping or
attempting to escape from police
custody or prison.
TRAUMATIC ASPHYXIA
ARM LOCK OR NECK HOLDS
BLUNT INJURY
ALCOHOL
SUICIDE
NATURAL CAUSE OF DEATH
Traumatic asphyxia:
form of custody.
Investigations of Torture and Custodial
Deaths
Such types of death are usually involved with
the non-cooperating attitude of the authorities that are
hostile to impartial injury.