Madurai, April 7 -- Nine Police personnel convicted in the 2020 custodial deaths case, in which trader P. Jayaraj (58) and his son J. Benicks (31) died after being severely assaulted and tortured in Police custody in the southern Tamil Nadu town of Sattankulam, were sentenced to death by a Court in Madurai yesterday.

Judge G. Muthukumaran imposed the death penalty on all nine convicted Policemen, the then Inspector S. Sridhar, Sub-Inspectors K. Balakrishnan and P. Raghu Ganesh, Head Constables S. Murugan and A. Samadurai and Constables M. Muthuraja, S. Chelladurai, X. Thomas Francis & S. Vailmuthu. The tenth accused, Special Sub-Inspector Pauldurai, died of COVID-19 during the trial.

The Court accepted the Central Bureau of Investigatio...