1. The petitioner has come up with a prayer to command the respondents to pay a sum of Rs. 5 Laks as compensation on account of her husband's custodial death.

2. A portrayal of relevant facts are in a narrow campus. On 12th April, 1994 Duli Chandra, aged about 42 years and the sole earning member of his family, and a scheduled caste having his wife the petitioner and four sons Kamlesh, Lal Babu, Shyam Babu and Gyan Chandra, went to Police Station Girwan, Banda to lodge an Information against his co - villager Budhwa in regard to some land dispute which had taken on that very day. Far from registering the First Information he was severely beaten by Ram Vraksh Singh Yadav, the Station House Officer of Police Station Girwan and Subedar Pal, the Head Constable respectively as a result of which he became unconscious and was thrown out of the Police Station. When his condition deteriorated he was taken to the hospital at Barokhar. The petitioner's eldest son Kamlesh Kumar after coming to know aforementioned facts lodged a First Information Report on 13th April, 1994 (copy appended as Annexure - 1). On 14th April, 1994 Duli Chandra succumbed to his injuries. On 15th April 1994 Post Mortem