The CB-CID have arrested five Tamil Nadu police personnel on the charges of murder over the alleged custodial killing of a father and son ...
The CB-CID have arrested five Tamil Nadu police personnel on the charges of murder over the alleged custodial killing of a father and son in Tuticorin last month, ANI reported on Thursday. The arrests came soon after the Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department altered the FIR against six people to include charges of murder, The Hindu reported.
The five were identified as Sub-Inspectors Raghu Ganesh and Balakrishnan, Inspector Shridhar, and constables Murugan and Muthuraj. The Tamil Nadu government had transferred the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation on June 28 after approval from the High Court. It had asked the CB-CID to take over the case from Tuticorin Police until the CBI took charge, according to NDTV.
The CB-CID modified both FIRs – one each for the death of the father, Jeyaraj, and the son, Bennix – to include murder charges against two sub inspectors, two constables and two other individuals. Earlier, the Thoothukudi district police had only registered a case of suspicious deaths under Section 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
The Madras High Court had on Tuesday observed that there was ample evidence to charge the policemen involved in the custodial deaths with murder. The court said postmortem reports of the two men showed that they had suffered grievous injuries.
Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu) custodial death case: CB-CID...
