Human rights lawyer Devi Singh Rawat was arbitrarily arrested on 31 January 2010 and subsequently ill-treated whilst in detention. Devi Singh Rawat works actively on torture cases in India. He was involved in the National Project on Prevention of Torture (NPPT) in India between 2006 and 2008. In January 2010, on the request of the State Law Officer of the NPPT, Devi Singh Rawat filed a case against officials from the Adarsh Nagar Police Station in the Ajmer District of Rajasthan for the torture of two individuals. Although the police officials tried on 30 January 2010 to persuade him to withdraw the case, Devi Singh Rawat refused to do so. 
