FIR AGAINST 5 COPS FOR ‘CUSTODIAL TORTURE’ IN TN
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.