Overview
- Madurai’s First Additional District and Sessions Court, which delivered its verdict Monday, found nine officers guilty of killing trader P. Jayaraj and his son J. Bennix in custody.
- Judge G. Muthukumaran set March 30 for the sentence and ordered the Centre and Tamil Nadu to file each convict’s health records, salary slips, and asset details.
- The CBI built its case with post-mortems, DNA from blood on station walls, lathis and the lockup, and eyewitness accounts after key CCTV was missing, and it found the lockdown charge was false.
- The court rejected claims that injuries were self-inflicted or due to a heart ailment, ruling that repeated assaults in custody caused both deaths.
- The case moved to the CBI under Madras High Court scrutiny, lasted nearly six years after one accused died during trial, and the family urged a punishment that deters future custodial deaths.