A force with teeth flexes muscles
The HinduIt was an advocate who first exposed the torture suffered by suspects reportedly at the hands of Ambasamudram Assistant Superintendent of Police Balveer Singh. Even as the death of trader Jayaraj and his son Bennicks, due to the alleged third degree treatment at the Sattankulam police station in Thoothukudi district in June 2020, is haunting the force, the death of Vignesh, 25, due to the alleged torture at the Secretariat Colony police station in Chennai hit the headlines in April 2022. They are now opening fire in the process of apprehending suspects causing a bullet injury on their legs”AseerState coordinator, Joint Action against Custodial Torture On April 18, 2022, two youths — Vignesh and Suresh — were caught by the police for allegedly possessing ganja during a vehicle check in Chennai and taken to the Secretariat Colony police station. Three weeks later, the police shot at another murder case accused, M. Sanjay Raja, 32, whom they had taken into custody for interrogation. Before the Sattankulam incident in 2020, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court had taken a serious view of the 2019 custodial torture and death of a 17-year-old boy, Muthu Karthik, at the S.S Colony police station in Madurai.
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