Jeyaraj and his son Bennicks 
Tamil Nadu

Sathankulam custodial death: CB-CID questions friends of police

The Crime Branch- Crime Investigation Department (CB-CID) of Tamil Nadu Police quizzes friends of police involved in the custodial death of father-son duo.

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Chennai

The Sathankulam custodial death case has been handed over to CB-CID by Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday. CB-CID have arrested five policemen working in Sathankulam police station in Tuticorin district for the murder of P. Jeyaraj and his son J. Bennicks on Thursday.

The CBCID also altered the first information report (FIR) registered on the death of Jeyaraj and Bennicks as a murder case from the earlier charge of suspicious death.

The five arrested policemen are: Inspector Sridhar, Sub-Inspectors Balakrishnan and Raghu Ganesh, Head Constable Murugan and Constable Muthuraj.

Ganesh was remanded to custody till July 16 on late Wednesday.

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