Edited sentence: Cases are firstly not registered, victims are encouraged, even threatened for not filing an official complaint.Despite State prohibitions against torture and custodial misconduct by the police, torture is widespread in police custody, which is a major reason behind deaths in custody.Even basic functions like lodging a FIR or reporting a theft can not be done without paying bribe to police officials.If a case somehow gets registered, the police usually do not take any action.Indian Police remains amongst the most corrupt departments of government.Joshi, the programme coordinator of the Indian branch of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in New Delhi comments that the main issue at hand concerning police violence is a lack of accountability of the police.The corrupt politicians and policemen go like hand in glove, often resulting in exploitation of the masses.The police often torture innocent people until a 'confession' is obtained to save influential and wealthy offenders