In India, the value and significance of accountability stem not from what it describes and espouses, but from the lack of it. The criminal justice system skirts around the issue of accountability, its institutions often complicit in the perpetuation of violence. In part three of this series, we analyze the types of accountabilities that take place within the various institutions that deal with custodial violence and torture in India. These institutions include the Police, the judiciary, the executive, the medical fraternity and the national and state human rights commissions. We examine the status of 15 cases of custodial deaths between 2015 and 2016, whether any compensation was provided to the victims’ families and the status of inquiries by different governmental bodies, while also highlighting independent inquiries by human rights organizations and civil society groups that have taken place in these cases. While there are gaps in our data, it is…

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