The Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) arrested sub-inspector Raghu Ganesh, the first of the four persons booked under the custodial murder charge of trader Jayaraj and his son Bennix in Sathankulam of Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin, on Wednesday night. The other three police officers charged – sub-inspector Balakrishnan and constables Murugan and Murhuraj – were arrested on Thursday morning on July 02, 2020
The investigation into the matter was initiated following strong observations made by the Madurai bench of the Madras high court. All accused have been booked under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code for murder. Soon after the killings, the police had termed it as a case of “suspicious death” and completed the formalities under Section 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Jayaraj and Bennix were brutalised by the police for allegedly violating lockdown rules imposed by the Tamil Nadu government. They were allegedly mercilessly beaten by the accused policemen on June 18, and on June 23 they died in a hospital. The police had tried to cover the incident up by claiming that the deceased person had inflicted injuries on themselves by rolling on the floor. The accused policemen had also claimed that the victims had hurled abuses at them. Several eyewitnesses and the victims’ lawyers, however, have denied these allegations and claimed that the policemen were only trying to save their skin by making up these stories.
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