1. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner urges for compensation for custodial death of her husband namely, Nirendra Reang alias Niram Reang. There is no dispute that Nirendra Reang was arrested in connection with Shantirbazar P.S. Case No.53/2000 which was registered under S.148/149/364 of the IPC and S.27 of the Arms Act. After producing Nirendra Reang in the Court of the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Belonia, South Tripura on 11.09.2000 he was remanded to the police custody with a direction to produce him on 23.09.2000. On 20.09.2000, he was initially taken to Tripura Sundari hospital at Udaipur on complaint of breathing difficulty, abdominal pain, vomiting and blood in urine. But the said hospital had immediately referred Nirendra Reang to G.B.P. hospital at Agartala but his life could not be saved as he expired on 21.09.2000.

2. According to the petitioner, after arrest of Nirendra Reang on 10.09.2000 he was brutally tortured in the lockup of Shantirbazar Police Station. When he was produced in the Court of the SDJM, Belonia, South Tripura, Nirendra Reang, the victim hereinafter in short, did not make any statement in respect of the torture in the police custody a