The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday granted two months additional time to the First Additional District and Sessions Court in Madurai to complete the trial in the Sattankulam custodial deaths case of trader P. Jayaraj and his son J. Benicks.
Justice K. Murali Shankar granted the trial court the additional time to complete the trial in the case and dismissed the bail petition filed by Raghu Ganesh, one of the police officers accused in the case. Selvarani, wife of Jayaraj and mother of Benicks and the CBI had opposed the bail petition filed by Raghu Ganesh.
The CBI had filed the chargesheet against the then inspector S. Sridhar, sub-inspectors P. Raghu Ganesh and K. Balakrishnan, head constables S. Murugan and A. Saamidurai and constables M. Muthuraj, S. Chelladurai, X. Thomas Francis and S. Veilumuthu. Special sub-inspector Pauldurai, an accused in the case, died after contracting COVID-19.
Published - March 26, 2025 08:59 pm IST
