Death Sentence For Nine Policemen: Satankulam Verdict Exposes Tamil Nadu’s Blin ...
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[*]The judge referred to the case of George Floyd in the United States to underscore the global nature of police violence inflicted on ordinary citizens.
[*]According to data presented in Parliament, 490 deaths were reported in judicial or police custody in Tamil Nadu between 2016–17 and 2021–22.
[*]Human rights groups hope the verdict will serve as a strong deterrent against inhuman acts by those in khaki.
It has been a long and arduous wait for J. Parsi ever since her father and brother were brutally killed in police custody in Satankulam. The two had been taken into custody before their deaths, a case that went on to shock the nation and raise serious concerns about custodial violence.
Six years later, the family sat through an emotionally charged moment in the First Additional District and Sessions Court in Madurai as the verdict was pronounced. When asked days earlier whether they sought the death penalty for the accused, the victims’ relatives had responded with quiet restraint, saying that giving and taking life is the prerogative of the Almighty.
However, presiding judge G. Muthukumaran, terming the crime as falling within the “rarest of rare” category, awarded the death penalty to nine policemen convicted in the case. Such a verdict is exceptionally uncommon in India’s judicial history, marking one of the rare instances where as many as nine individuals have been sentenced to death in a single case.
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