Tamil Nadu Custodial Death

A 30-year-old man died in police custody in Tamil Nadu's Chennai on Sunday evening, the second such incident in the state in less than two months.

Six Tamil Nadu police personnel were arrested on Saturday for murder in connection with the custodial death of a 25-year-old man in Chennai.

The policemen involved in the custodial death of a 25-year-old man in Chennai last month have been charged for murder, Chief Minister MK Stalin announced in the Tamil Nadu assembly today. Earlier, the police had filed a case of suspicious death.

Vignesh was arrested by the police on April 18 over alleged possession of marijuana. He died in police custody the next day.

More than a week after a 25-year-old youth died after allegedly being beaten up at a police station in Chennai, an unverified CCTV video has surfaced leading to claims and counterclaims of police torture.

Two police officers accused in a case of custodial deaths of a man and his son in Tamil Nadu that had outraged the nation, will not get bail, the Supreme Court has decided.

A Madurai court has taken cognisance of a CBI charge sheet against nine Tamil Nadu Police personnel in the custodial death case of a father-son duo in Thoothukudi district and directed that the accused be produced before it on November 11, officials said on Tuesday.

A Tamil Nadu man and his son who died after their arrest for allegedly violating the coronavirus lockdown in June, were tortured for over six hours by policemen who "wanted to teach them a lesson" in how to behave with cops, the CBI has said in a chargesheet on the custodial deaths that angered the nation.

Nine policemen have named in a chargesheet filed by the CBI in a case of alleged custodial death in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin. In the case that was widely condemned for alleged police brutality, Jeyaraj and his son Beniks were allegedly tortured by the police on the night of 19 June, before they died in a hospital.

A policeman in Tamil Nadu, accused in the custodial deaths of a father and son in Tuticorin district in June, died of COVID-19 on Monday.

Two more officers of the CBI team that probed the Tuticorin custodial death case tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, while one of the accused policemen is found to have contracted the virus.

Two officers of a CBI team probing alleged extrajudicial killing of a man and his son by Tamil Nadu police personnel in Tuticorin have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said Thursday.

Four policemen from Sathankulam police station were sent to judicial custody by the Madurai District Court in the Thoothukudi custodial death case.

Five of the ten policemen arrested in the Tamil Nadu father-son custodial deaths case will be in the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI for two days, a court in Madurai said today.

The CBI, which is probing the death of a father-son duo in alleged police torture in Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, moved a local court on Monday seeking custody of five accused policemen including an inspector.

A 30-year-old man died in police custody in Tamil Nadu's Chennai on Sunday evening, the second such incident in the state in less than two months.

Six Tamil Nadu police personnel were arrested on Saturday for murder in connection with the custodial death of a 25-year-old man in Chennai.

The policemen involved in the custodial death of a 25-year-old man in Chennai last month have been charged for murder, Chief Minister MK Stalin announced in the Tamil Nadu assembly today. Earlier, the police had filed a case of suspicious death.

Vignesh was arrested by the police on April 18 over alleged possession of marijuana. He died in police custody the next day.

More than a week after a 25-year-old youth died after allegedly being beaten up at a police station in Chennai, an unverified CCTV video has surfaced leading to claims and counterclaims of police torture.

Two police officers accused in a case of custodial deaths of a man and his son in Tamil Nadu that had outraged the nation, will not get bail, the Supreme Court has decided.

A Madurai court has taken cognisance of a CBI charge sheet against nine Tamil Nadu Police personnel in the custodial death case of a father-son duo in Thoothukudi district and directed that the accused be produced before it on November 11, officials said on Tuesday.

A Tamil Nadu man and his son who died after their arrest for allegedly violating the coronavirus lockdown in June, were tortured for over six hours by policemen who "wanted to teach them a lesson" in how to behave with cops, the CBI has said in a chargesheet on the custodial deaths that angered the nation.

Nine policemen have named in a chargesheet filed by the CBI in a case of alleged custodial death in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin. In the case that was widely condemned for alleged police brutality, Jeyaraj and his son Beniks were allegedly tortured by the police on the night of 19 June, before they died in a hospital.

A policeman in Tamil Nadu, accused in the custodial deaths of a father and son in Tuticorin district in June, died of COVID-19 on Monday.

Two more officers of the CBI team that probed the Tuticorin custodial death case tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, while one of the accused policemen is found to have contracted the virus.

Two officers of a CBI team probing alleged extrajudicial killing of a man and his son by Tamil Nadu police personnel in Tuticorin have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said Thursday.

Four policemen from Sathankulam police station were sent to judicial custody by the Madurai District Court in the Thoothukudi custodial death case.

Five of the ten policemen arrested in the Tamil Nadu father-son custodial deaths case will be in the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI for two days, a court in Madurai said today.

The CBI, which is probing the death of a father-son duo in alleged police torture in Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, moved a local court on Monday seeking custody of five accused policemen including an inspector.