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Making the State Culpable, India Legal

India Legal  11 July 2020 By Inderjit Badhwar  The brutal torture-murder of the father-son duo, P Jayaraj and J Benicks, by the Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu) police and subsequent arrest of some of the alleged perpetrators following a national outrage of protests has focused renewed attention on the latest report of the National Campaign Against Torture […]

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India’s George Floyds: custodial deaths raise question of who’s policing the police, South China Morning Post

South China Morning Post 09 July 2020 By Vasudevan Sridharan Bennicks Immanuel and J Jayaraj died from their injuries after allegedly being tortured following their arrest for breaking coronavirus lockdown rules Activists say theirs were just two of many deaths in police custody in India, raising questions over police brutality, impunity and the need for reform […]

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Seventeen years since Khwaja Yunus died in Mumbai Police custody, Indian cops still unaccountable for custodial deaths, Firstpost

Firstpost 07 July 2020 In a depressing continuation of the widespread practice of custodial torture, P Jayaraj, 59, and J Fenix, 31, died gruesome deaths in Thoothukudi last month The outrage and debates around the chilling custodial deaths of a father-son duo in Tamil Nadu sound a bit too familiar to Sayyad Khwaja Hussain, 50. “It […]

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Ex-IPS Officer On Police Brutality: ‘Punish Such Officers Swiftly, Demystify The Police’, Huffington Post

Huffington Post  07 July 2020 By Akshita Jain, Editor Demystifying the police and increasing the forums of interaction between police and citizens can help reimagine the role of the police, says retired IPS officer Meeran Chadha Borwankar.  The custodial death of a father and son in Thoothukudi last month has led to widespread outrage and protests around the country. […]

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Most States Have Flouted Mandatory Judicial Inquiry into Custodial Deaths for 15 Years, The Wire

The Wire  07 July 2020 By Sukanya Shantha The amended section 176 (1A) of the CrPC mandates judicial inquiry into every case of death, rape and disappearance in the custody. Mumbai: On June 26, following nationwide outrage, the Madurai bench of the Madras high court ordered for a judicial magistrate’s inquiry into the alleged custodial murders of […]