In India’s Dark Record on Custodial Deaths, Jharkhand HC Offers Rare Hope
Edgar Kaiser May 18, 2026

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The Jharkhand High Court orders fresh judicial probes into 262 of 427 custodial deaths, flags grave legal violations, and links them to wider national failures on torture, accountability and compensation. Edgar Kaiser asks: Can this verdict become a model to fix India’s custodial justice crisis?