Hindustan Times (Noida)

FIR AGAINST 5 COPS FOR ‘CUSTODIAL TORTURE’ IN TN

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CHENNAI: Madurai police have filed an FIR against five policemen — four constables and a sub-inspector — based on a complaint of custodial torture filed by a contract sanitary worker N Tirupathi. All the cops were booked under various sections, including section 323 (voluntaril­y causing hurt), of the IPC on February 11, assistant commission­er of police, Madurai Justin Prabhakarm, said. “These sections will be altered after receiving doctors’ reports,” he said.

Tirupati is undergoing treatment at Madurai’s Government Rajaji Hospital for a broken jaw. “His surgery has been scheduled for Wednesday,” his elder brother N Tamilarasa­n who rushed to Madurai from Chennai, after hearing that his brother was “illegally detained and beaten”, said.

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