SC hears PIL on custodial torture

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday accorded a daylong hearing to a PIL seeking a direction to the Centre to frame a law on custodial torture and inhuman treatment as India was a signatory to the United Nations' convention on torture after petitioner and former Law Minister Ashwini Kumar submitted that he has not been heard. A bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi took note of the submission of the senior lawyer Kumar and said that it will only hear him and reminded him that the apex court has to deal with the grievances of "1.3 billion people which is half of the population of the world".