New Delhi, April 29 -- The death penalty awarded to nine Indian policemen for the custodial killings of a trader and his son earlier this month will stand out as the biggest strike for accountability and against injustice in a system that has mostly trivialised the lives of those held in custody, who are also invariably among the weakest and poorest members of society. On April 6, Judge G.Muthukumaran of the First Additional District and Sessions Court in Madurai delivered one of India's most consequential verdicts on custodial violence. The court sentenced nine policemen to death for the 2020 custodial torture that took the lives of P. Jayaraj and his son J. Bennicks at Sathankulam Police Station in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi district in s...