New Delhi, July 21 -- The Supreme Court on July 21 ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into the alleged torture of a police constable at a Joint Interrogation Centre (JIC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara in 2023.

The top Court also directed immediate arrest of the officers of the J&K police who were responsible for the abuse and ordered the Union Territory administration to pay a compensation of Rs.50,00,000 to the victim as restitution for the gross violation of his fundamental rights.

The bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta said that the accused officials involved in the alleged custodial violence must be arrested within a month.

The Appellant Khursheed Ahmed Chauhan, a police constable, had approached ...