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The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court connected Friday ordered a CB-CID probe into the decease of Dinesh Kumar, 31, a Scheduled Caste youth, successful Madurai.
It is said that the habitual offender, who reportedly escaped from Madurai metropolis constabulary custody, died aft jumping into a canal astatine Vandiyur connected Thursday morning. However, the kin of the antheral alleged that helium was tortured and killed portion successful constabulary custody astatine Anna Nagar constabulary station.
The tribunal was proceeding a nationalist involvement litigation petition filed by advocator C. Selvakumar of Madurai who said the constabulary unit attached to Anna Nagar constabulary presumption had picked up Dinesh Kumar from his location successful Yagappa Nagar for an enquiry.
Later, the victim’s parent Muthulakshmi was summoned to the constabulary presumption and said that her lad had escaped and fell into a canal, resulting successful his death.
The petitioner said the connection was mendacious and fabricated. Dinesh Kumar was subjected to brutal custodial torture and beaten to decease by the constabulary personnel. The enactment of the constabulary unit was a gross quality rights usurpation and it amounted to custodial murder.
The constabulary unit should beryllium punished for execution and besides nether the applicable provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, helium said.
A Division Bench of Justices Anita Sumanth and C. Kumarappan ordered a CBCID probe into the matter. The tribunal besides directed the authorities to behaviour the postmortem arsenic per the guidelines and sphere the disposable CCTV footage.
Following the decease of the man, Anna Nagar Police Station Inspector Flower Sheela was transferred to Armed Reserve Police connected Friday.
Madurai City Police Commissioner J. Loganathan said the presumption inspector was transferred to the AR constabulary force.
Action would beryllium initiated against different constabulary unit lone aft the enquiry into the decease was over, helium added.
