ORDER :- Special leave granted.

2. This is an unfortunate case which tends to shake the credibility of police investigation and undermines the faith of common man in Delhi Police which is supposed to protect lift and liberty of citizens and maintain law and order. There has been serious allegations of murder by torture against the police and futher about the haphazard manner in which the investigation against the accused police officers was investigated with a view to shield the guilty members of the Delhi Police.

3. Kashmeri Devi the appellant is the unfortunate widow of Gopi Ram deceased who was a tanga driver. On the fateful night of 22/23-8-1986 two sub-inspectors accompanied by two constables visited the house of Sudesh Kumar of Prem Nagar. It is alleged that they started beating Sudesh Kumar. Hearing his shrieks his maternal uncle Gopi Ram deceased came to the spot, he tried to intervene whereupon the police men are alleged to have given him beating also. Gopi Ram and Sudesh Kumar both were arrested and taken to the Police Station, Patel Nagar where they were stripped of their clothes and the policemen gave them serious beating with the help of iron rods and iron rulers. It is