Tuticorin custodial deaths: Madras HC says evidence may be destroyed before CBI begins probe

Tuticorin custodial deaths: Madras HC says evidence may be destroyed before CBI begins probe

Chennai: The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court on Tuesday directed Thoothukudi Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Anil Kumar and the Crime Branch of Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) to take up the investigation within the Thoothukudi custodial deaths case.

A division bench of justices, primarily based on the preliminary postmortem report which notes proof of wounds and judicial inquirer’s findings, additionally noticed that there are ample grounds for the registration of a case in opposition to police officers within the matter. 

During the listening to, the court docket stated that a lot of wounds had been discovered on the our bodies of Jayaraj and his son Fennix. The court docket additionally expressed doubt through the listening to which can be potentialities that proof will get destroyed earlier than the CBI take the probe. The court docket additionally expressed shock over the best way a judicial Justice of the Peace probing the custodial deaths was abused by cops at Sathankulam police station.

The remarks from the court docket amid stories that the accused cop allegedly did not cooperate with Justice of the Peace who was investigating the matter. The stories acknowledged that cops not solely refused to share associated paperwork to officers but in addition handed abusive remarks. 

The High Court had additionally requested Tirunelveli Inspector General if it is going to be doable to take up the case till it’s handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Earlier, the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court had held that it’ll not intrude with the choice of the Tamil Nadu authorities to switch the case associated to the alleged custodial deaths of a father and son in Thoothukudi district to the CBI.

The court docket additionally sought a response inside 4 weeks from Additional Deputy Superintendent of Police (ADSP), Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and police officers on the judicial Justice of the Peace contempt situation.

In one other improvement, Superintendent of Police, Thoothukudi district Arun Balagopalan was faraway from his place and stored below obligatory wait, with out being assigned every other submit, on Tuesday. Viluppuram SP S Jeyakumar has been posted as the brand new Thoothukudi SP.

P Jayaraj (59) and his son J Benicks (31) had been arrested from exterior their cell outlets on June 19 for violation of prohibitory orders and produced earlier than the responsibility physician of a authorities hospital at Sathankulam in Tuticorin district for necessary medical-examination. The subsequent day, a Justice of the Peace remanded them to judicial custody and so they had been lodged on the Kovilpatti sub-jail on June 21.

Bennicks was admitted on the authorities hospital in Kovilpatti by jail authorities on June 22 at 19.45 hours and he died at 21.00 hours whereas he was present process remedy. His father Jeyaraj was additionally admitted to the identical facility at 22.30 hours on the identical day and he died at 05.40 hours on June 23, the order stated.

The father-son duo was accused of defying the lockdown curfew by conserving their cell phone equipment store within the Sathankulam most important bazaar space open through the curfew timing. A case was additionally filed in opposition to the 2 below related prices for a similar.

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