Dindigul SP asked to appear in Madras High Court
A police team rushed to the spot and offered Rs 4 lakh as compensation to the victim’s family members
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-10-15 05:26 GMT
Chennai: The Madras high court has directed the Dindigul superintendent of police to appear before the court on November 25 in connection with the alleged custodial death of an accused.
The First bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice T.S. Sivagnanam, before which a petition filed by Prisoners’ Rights Forum, represented by its director, P. Pugalenthi, an advocate, came up for hearing, directed the SP to appear. The petitioner prayed the court for a CBI probe into the death.
The petitioner submitted that A. Raja, of Sellayipuram, Nilakottai taluk, Dindigul district, was arrested from Palmar Mills, Siddaiyankottai, by Dindigul North police, led by Sub Inspector, Ramesh Kannan, on June 6, 2012 in a case of theft. The petitioner alleged that the arrested person was thrust into a police van and tortured. Raja was taken to the police station three hours later.
The cops assaulted him in the police station also. Around 8 pm he was taken to the village to arrest others allegedly involved in the crime. His kin received a message in the small hours of the next day that Raja had died and his body kept at the Vedasandur government hospital mortuary. The family members and local villagers staged a demonstration before the hospital.
A police team rushed to the spot and offered Rs 4 lakh as compensation to the victim’s family members. The petitioner said the police had not registered a case in connection with the “custodial death”.