Chennai, Oct. 11 -- The Madras High Court on Friday ordered a CBCID probe into the death of a 31-year-old man, V Dinesh Kumar in Madurai district after his family alleged a case of police custodial torture.

Kumar, was being taken to the Anna Nagar police station in Madurai on October 9 early morning on suspicion of selling ganja to children, according to the FIR, a copy of which HT has seen. But he died on the same day. While police say he escaped and drowned in a canal, his family alleges a cover up by the police.

A bench of justices Anita Sumanth and C Kumarappan of the Madurai bench of the Madras high court ordered for the postmortem of the victim to begin immediately and it started at 7pm on Friday.

The bench passed the order based...