POLICE CUSTODIAL DEATH OF MINOR CHILD --- Justice N. Seshasayee observed that the court was not happy with how the case was handled by the police. Any amount of condemnation was not going to bring the boy alive. Yet, the court could not turn a blind eye in the case, he said while transferring the investigation to CB-CID. The court said that the case would be investigated under Section 302 (murder) of Indian Penal Code.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/hc-orders-cb-cid-probe-into-boys-death/article26646035.ece 26.03.2019 -- THE HINDU NEWSPAPER The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered a CB-CID inquiry into the custodial torture and resultant death of a boy from Madurai. It is said that the 17-year-old boy was picked up by the S.S. Colony police for inquiry into a jewel theft, kept in illegal custody for three days and subjected to custodial torture. Justice N. Seshasayee observed that the court was not happy with how the case was handled by the police. Any amount of condemnation was not going to bring the boy alive. Yet, the court could not turn a blind eye in the case, he said while transferring the investigation to CB-CID. The court said that the case would be investigated under Section 302 (murder) of Indian Penal Code. The court ordered that the investigation team of the CB-CID shall be led by an officer in the rank of...