More than the revocation of the AFSPA from a few areas, what is crucial is ending the culture of impunity and the pattern of lawlessness it has spawned.  
Read more at: http://www.indiatogether.org/2011/dec/hrt-afspa.htm

A leaked diplomatic cable in the ongoing series of leaks by Wikileaks reveals a Red Cross assessment, gleaned from on-site visits, of widespread torture of prisoners in Kashmir by Indian security forces 
More at: http://infochangeindia.org/human-rights/news/torture-routine-method-of-interrogation-in-india-wikileaks.html

Former Justice Narayan Chandra Sil, acting chairperson of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission, has admitted that the state commission had not been able to accomplish its task of educating people about human rights. Read full report at:  http://www.indianexpress.com/news/state-human-rights-commission-has-failed-to-perform-panel-chief/892534/ 

The Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN has published the Joint Stakeholders' Report on Human Rights in India as part of the UN's Universal Periodic Review. The Report can be downloaded from:  http://www.wghr.org/pdf/WGHR%20UPR%20II%20report%20(designed)_final.pdf

Torture in India 2011, the latest report in a series started in 2008 by the Asian Center for Human Rights, has reported 14,231 custodial deaths in India during 2001-2010. The Report comes in the wake of yet another instance of the Government stalling the enactment of the Prevention of Torture Bill 2010 .
(Click on the image below to download the Report)