Torture

Define of Torture under the PREVENTION AND PROHIBITION OF TORTURE ACT, 2012

Torture means any act or omission, by which severe pain or suffering whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of any person whether a public official or other person acting in an official or private capacity  for such purposes as— (a)obtaining information or a confession from the person or any other person; (b)punishing that person for an act he or she or any other person has committed, or is suspected of having committed or of planning to commit; or c)intimidating or coercing the person or any other person to do, or to refrain from doing, any act. (2) For purposes of this Act , “severe pain or suffering” means the prolonged harm caused by or resulting from— (a)the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of physical pain or suffering; (b)the administration or application, or threatened administration or application, of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality; (c)the threat of imminent death; or (d)the threat that another person will imminently be subjected to death, severe physical pain or suffering, or the administration or application of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or personality. (3) Without limiting the effect of subsection (1), the acts constituting torture shall include the acts set out in the Second Schedule. (4) The definition of torture set out in subsection (1) does not include pain or suffering arising from, inherent in or incidental to a lawful sanction

Under the new "PREVENTION AND
PROHIBITION OF TORTURE ACT, 2012",
Physical torture includes;
If these definitions are to be strictly
enforced, then so many Teachers and
schools would be guilty.
Have you been subjected to any of
these? If so, then you have been
PHYSICALLY TORTURED, under the
law.
(a) systematic beating, head banging,
punching, kicking, striking
with truncheons, rifle butts, JUMPING
ON THE STOMACH;
(b) food deprivation or forcible
feeding with spoiled food, animal or
human excreta;
(c) electric shocks;
(d) cigarette burning, burning by
electrically heated rods, hot oil,
acid, by the rubbing of pepper or
other chemical substances on
mucous membranes, or acids or
spices;
(e) the submersion of the victim's
head in water or water polluted
with excrement, urine, vomit or blood;
(f) being tied or forced to assume a
fixed and stressful body position;
(g) rape and sexual abuse, including
the insertion of foreign bodies
into the sexual organs or rectum or
electrical torture of the
genitals;
(h) mutilation, such as amputation of
the essential parts of the body such
as the genitalia, ears, tongue;
(i) dental torture or the forced
extraction of the teeth;
(j) harmful exposure to the elements
such as sunlight and extreme
cold; or
(k) the use of plastic bags and other
materials placed over the
victim's head with the intention to
asphyxiate.