New Delhi, April 6 -- Nine policemen have been awarded death sentence by a court in Tamil Nadu's Madurai district in connection with six-year-old Jayaraj-Benicks custodial deaths case. The cops have been identified as Inspector Sridhar, Sub-Inspectors Balakrishnan and Raghu Ganesh, and police personnel Murugan, Samadurai, Muthuraja, Chelladurai, Thomas Francis, and Veilumuthu.

While pronouncing the death sentence to nine policemen, the district remarked that the "heart shudders reading about the case," an NDTV report said.

The court underlined the "case of abuse of authority" and mentioned that the ruling would not instill fear in policemen as there are many honest cops in the force. "Father and son stripped, ruthlessly assaulted... Hea...