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Tamil Nadu: Thoothukudi SP transferred after custodial deaths of Jayaraj and Bennix

| @indiablooms | Jun 30, 2020, at 03:10 pm

Chennai/IBNS: A week after the custodial deaths of Jayaraj and Bennix, who were tortured by police at the Sathankulam police station in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi, the district Superintendent of Police (SP) Arun Balagopalan was transferred by the state government on Tuesday, media reports said.

Balagopalan, an IPS, has been put on "compulsory waiting at the Office of the Director General of Police."

The government has appointed S Jeyakumar as the SP, The News Minute reported.

A massive outrage on social media was triggered by the custodial deaths of the father and his son who were arrested by police for violating the lockdown norms in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

Jayaraj and his son Bennix, who were the small time traders in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi district, were pulled up, arrested and allegedly assaulted by the Sathankulam Police officials for keeping their mobile shop open beyond the permitted time during the lockdown.

Following the assault, which reminded the killing of black man George Floyd by a police officer in the United States, the father-son duo had succumbed to their injuries in Kovilpatti General Hospital.

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