Human Rights Are The Basic Rights Of Every Individual Against The State Or Any Other Public?Authority?As A Member Of The Human?Family?Irrespective Of Any Other Consideration. Thus Every Individual Of The?Society?Has The Inherent Right To Be Treated With Dignity In All Situations Including Arrest And Keeping In Custody By The Police. In Spite Of Various International And National?Legal?Standards?For The Protection Of Rights Of Persons In?Police?Custody, Human Rights Violations In Police Custody Are Endemic In?India?And Are Tarnishing The?Image?Of India Abroad.Though The?Academic?World?And?Judiciary?Have Become Conscious Of The Need Of A?Study?Of The Causes Of Human Rights Violations In Police Custody, Its Importation Into The Realm Of Human Rights On Any Systematic Scale, Is Not Yet Attempted. In The Field Of Human Rights, A Deep Study Of The Causes Of Human Rights Violations In Police Custody From The Legal Standpoint Has So Far Received?Little?Attention.This Book Is Intended To Investigate The Causes Of Human Rights Violations In Police Custody And?Abuse?Of Their Authority By Using Third Degree And Inhuman Methods On Persons In Their Custody. Further It Concentrates On The?Ways?By Which The Police Personnel Can Be Made Duty-Bound And Thereby Makes Them Withdraw Themselves From Committing Custodial Torture And Make Them Aware Of The Need For Protecting The Human Rights Values.