Tamil Nadu: Cops get 10 years RI in custodial death case from 2014

NAGAPATTINAM: The mahila fastrack court in Nagapattinam on Friday convicted an inspector of police and special sub-inspector (SSI) after finding them guilty in a custodial death reported on January 1, 2014.
The court has sentenced the two policemen to undergo 10 years of rigorous imprisonment each in the custodial death of a 39-year-old autorickshaw driver.
Inspector N S Rajendran of Nagore police station and SSI P Jayaraman, on December 31, 2013, had asked auto driver Suresh to park his vehicle away from the roadside. It was said that Suresh had argued that his vehicle was already parked on the side. An altercation broke out and Suresh was beaten up, arrested. He was taken to the Nagapattinam GH for medical examination before being produced in front of the judicial magistrate for remand. He collapsed at the hospital and was declared dead in the early hours of January 1, 2014. After a public outcry of police excess, a case was registered based on Suresh’s wife Kala’s complaint.