Madurai: Nine Police personnel convicted in the 2020 custodial deaths case, in which trader P. Jayaraj (58) and his son J. Benicks (31) died after being severely assaulted and tortured in Police custody in the southern Tamil Nadu town of Sattankulam, were sentenced to death by a Court in Madurai yesterday. Judge G. Muthukumaran imposed...

Holding police accountable for the crime, the high court bench termed it a rarest of rare crime defined by shocking brutality and abuse of authority.

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has sentenced nine Tamil Nadu policemen to death in the 2020 Sathankulam custodial killing case of father-son duo Jayaraj and Benniks.

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has sentenced nine Tamil Nadu policemen to death in the 2020 Sathankulam custodial killing case of father-son duo Jayaraj and Benniks.