The capital city described as Cyberabad turned into Floodabad recently. This also shows the poor state of development. Coming to the theme of the seminar, you claimed that torture does take place indiscriminately when a person is remanded into police custody. Yes, torture is inflicted when a person is in police custody. Many country papers presented and discussed at the seminar dwelt at length on it.
Torture is the most private of human rights violations.
It is a clandestine operation carried out in silence, secrecy, isolation and anonymity. The process of torture begins with the arrest of a person by the police. Generally, when a person is taken to a police station in connection with some offense or other is subjected to torture of one form or the other. You talked about torture in prison and torture in police custody. But torture in prison, in whatever form, comes under judicial supervision whereas torture in police custody goes completely unsupervised.