Overview
- The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court directed the Government Rajaji Hospital Dean to conduct Akash Delison’s post-mortem in the presence of the Judicial Magistrate, with compliance due on March 11.
- State authorities said the investigation has been transferred to the Crime Branch–CID, as the Additional Advocate General denied custodial torture and asserted Akash was injured after falling while trying to flee, including an account of a fall from a bridge.
- Akash’s family alleged police torture and caste-based abuse, refused to accept the body, and continued a road blockade in Manamadurai demanding arrests of personnel they hold responsible.
- Hospital sources reported multiple fractures and indicated a possible fat embolism as a preliminary view, with the exact cause to be established by the court-supervised autopsy.
- Akash, 26, was arrested on March 6 in an alleged weapon attack case, remanded to judicial custody, shifted between hospitals, and died on March 8, drawing condemnation from opposition parties and rights groups that seek murder and SC/ST Atrocities charges.