India, March 24 -- A Tamil Nadu court on Monday convicted nine policemen for the 2020 custodial torture and deaths of a man and his son at Sathankulam in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi district. First Additional District and Sessions Court Judge G Muthukumaran declared that the prosecution had proven its case and held the policemen guilty of causing the deaths. The court has sought from the state government details of assets and last drawn salaries of the convicted policemen to slap a penalty on them. The quantum of sentence for the convicts will be pronounced on March 30, the judge said. On June 19, 2020, mobile phone shop owner P Jayaraj, 59, and his son J Benicks, 31, were taken to the Sathankulam police station for an alleged violation of norms to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The father and son died on June 23 at Kovilpatti sub-jail following brutal custodial torture at the police station.HTC...