Jacques, sorry about the claims made by OP. In India, if you are a white collar worker and live in a city there is little chance you would ever encounter police brutality. Even better if you have the money to pay off the right people. The result is that the generation brought up in such an environment does not even realise that there is a world outside that is very harsh. The OP would have never seen the world outside his shell.
It's a good thing you engaged a lawyer and quickly brought the judiciary into the loop. Not because you'll get instant justice but it will bring everything under scrutiny. The victim's enemies would now be deterred from taking extreme measures.
(A personal experience - We almost became a victim of a police officer trying to take over our hard earned property by hook or crook. It's because of my dad's presence of mind that we came out of it relatively unscathed (we still went through a lot). He engaged a lawyer, escalated it to his superiors and filed a petition with the human rights commission too. All happened so fast that the officer had to stop furthering his plan. It still just bought us enough time to sell the property and get out of it. But at least, the alternatives would have been much worse.)
It's a good thing you engaged a lawyer and quickly brought the judiciary into the loop. Not because you'll get instant justice but it will bring everything under scrutiny. The victim's enemies would now be deterred from taking extreme measures.
(A personal experience - We almost became a victim of a police officer trying to take over our hard earned property by hook or crook. It's because of my dad's presence of mind that we came out of it relatively unscathed (we still went through a lot). He engaged a lawyer, escalated it to his superiors and filed a petition with the human rights commission too. All happened so fast that the officer had to stop furthering his plan. It still just bought us enough time to sell the property and get out of it. But at least, the alternatives would have been much worse.)