Sattankulam custodial deaths: sentencing posted to April 2 after delay in receiving State, Union government reports

With the Union and the State governments’ reports on aggravating/mitigating circumstances awaited, the First Additional District and Sessions Court in Madurai on Monday posted the Sattankulam custodial deaths case of trader P. Jayaraj, 58, and his son J. Benicks, 31, for sentencing to April 2.

Nearly six years after Jayaraj and Benicks died of custodial torture during COVID-19 lockdown at the Sattankulam police station in Thoothukudi district, the First Additional District and Sessions Judge G. Muthukumaran on March 23 convicted all nine police personnel accused in the case.