The Madras High Court on Monday directed Tamil Nadu's directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption to investigate the assets of police and revenue personnel involved in the 2018 Thoothukudi Sterlite police firing, in which 13 protesters were killed and 33 wounded. Six years later, a Division Bench of Justices S.S. Sundar and N. Senthilkumar has ordered that the assets acquired by …
Ten years after its creation, following a delimitation, the politically nondescript Thoothukudi Lok Sabha constituency achieved a high-profile status in 2019 when DMK leader Kanimozhi Karunanidhi entered the fray against BJP leader and former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan. Now Ms. Soundararajan’s decision to opt for the Chennai South constituency has left Thoothukudi with not-so prominent names, apart from Ms. Kanimozhi, …
The Tamil Nadu government has suspended a Deputy Superintendent of Police and three police constables in connection with the May 2018 police firing in Thoothukudi which claimed 13 lives. The report named 17 police officers, including the then Inspector-General of Police, Shailesh Kumar Yadav, the then Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Kapil Kumar C. Saratkar, the then Thoothukudi Superintendent of Police, …
The trial in the June custodial deaths of father and son, P Jeyaraj and J Bennicks, at Sathankulam in Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi district, took place on Wednesday at the Madurai sessions court. The Central Bureau of Investigation, which has been probing the case since July after taking over from Tamil Nadu Police’s Crime-Branch Crime Investigation Department, has chargesheeted nine policemen …
The Central Bureau of Investigation’s charge sheet in the alleged custodial deaths of P Jeyaraj and J Bennicks details the inhumane six- hour torture of the father and son allegedly by nine police officers at Sathankulam police station in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu. The charge sheet, filed on September 25 against the nine police officers, said that after Jeyaraj, 59, was …