The main objective of establishing police force in a country is detection and prevention of crime. In India there is a growing trend of police atrocities reported daily in one way or other in news paper and other media. Police in India usually adopt practices involving custodial violations and torture as a strategy for the law enforcement. They inflict torture on the accused in the name of investigation, extracting confession. Besides accused, they also torture Bonafede informants, innocent petitioners and bystanders. The human rights violation by them ranges from verbal abuse, assault, threat of death or injury, humiliation, deprivation of food etc., On women, police inflict torture in the form of molestation, rape and sexual harassment. It is anguishing that police in India who are indulging themselves in the human rights violations follow their own code instead of adhering to procedures stated under Criminal Procedure code. In this background this study tries to identify the roles and responsibilities of police against the innocent citizen of India and to find out some concrete solutions against the existing human rights violation by our police.