Custodial Carnage- Barbaric devil in uniform
‘Police is your friend’- proclaims a banner prominently placed outside a police station. But, what an ordinary citizen thinks, expecting police to be friendly would be too much and let them at least treat the common man as a human being. Two men, father aged 58 years and his son aged 31 years were arrested by the Sathankulam police for allegedly violating lockdown norms on business hours by their mobile phone shop, died at a hospital in Kovilpatti on June 23, 2020. Relatives alleged that the policemen had severely beaten and manhandled them at the Sathankulam police station, Tamil Nadu. Initially two policemen were suspended and others were transferred. The state government had awarded compensation of 10 lakh to the family of the victims. When the news of the police torture sparked a state-wide outrage, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu was forced to transfer the probe to CBI. On June 29, 2020, the Madras High Court cleared the decks for a CBI probe into the custodial death of t