Human Rights and Police: An Indian Perspective

Naresh Kumar Singh

doi:10.63363/aijfr.2025.v06i05.1343

Human Rights and Police: An Indian Perspective

Author(s)	Dr. Naresh Kumar Singh
Country	India
Abstract	The research study tries to find out the relationship between Human Rights protection and policing. Human Rights are inalienable rights. These rights are available to all human beings just being a human. The fight for justice, freedom and human dignity is eternal and the values inherent in human rights will always constitute a benchmark for humanity. Thus, human rights are what make us human. They are the principles by which we create the sacred home for human dignity. Human rights are the expression of those traditions of tolerance in all cultures that are the basis of peace and progress. ‘Human Rights’ is a twentieth century name for what has been traditionally known as ‘natural rights’, ‘birth rights’ or, in a more exhilarating phrase, the ‘rights of man’. So, it is the foremost duty of the state to promote and protect the human rights of its citizens. There are many agencies of the government through which it tries to safeguard the human rights. Police is the important agency of the government, which duty is to protect the human rights. There is a close relationship between policing and human rights. Police is a State List subject under Indian Constitution. The Indian Police Act, 1861 shapes the organization, management and functioning of the police department in India. It is blamed that before Independence the British misused the Indian Police, and after Independence it is being misused by the Indian Politicians and governments in power for their narrow interest. We do not find substantial change in the role and behavior of Indian Police over the seventy eight years of Indian Independence. Indian People do not have trust on the Police, rather approaching to the police for the protection of human rights the tendency among people is to run away from the policing in India. Also, there is a nexus between criminals and police in India. Indian police are blamed to be inefficient and non-professional to the great extent. With such a hypothesis, the research paper tries to find interrelationship and interdependence between human rights and policing in India. Here, the problems, challenges and limitations of Indian police are also required to be addressed while investigating the role of police in the promotion and protection of human rights in India. The paper aims to find out some workable solutions after comprehensive study of human rights and policing in India.
Keywords	Human Rights, Police, Act, Code, Fair trial.
Field	Sociology > Politics
Published In	Volume 6, Issue 5, September-October 2025
Published On	2025-09-16
DOI	https://doi.org/10.63363/aijfr.2025.v06i05.1343
Short DOI	https://doi.org/g938m2

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