Overview

• On July 24, the CBI filed a counter-affidavit in the Madurai sessions court opposing Inspector S Sridhar’s plea to become an approver.
• Investigators cited DNA samples from lathis, lock-up rooms and toilets that matched the victims as pivotal forensic proof of custodial torture.
• The agency alleges Sridhar directed fellow officers to torture P. Jeyaraj and J. Bennix overnight, resulting in their deaths from multiple blunt-force injuries.
• Victim P. Jeyaraj’s wife, Selvarani, submitted her own affidavit arguing the approver plea is a deliberate tactic to delay trial proceedings.
• The next hearing is set for July 28, with Sridhar and nine other suspended officers held in Madurai Central Prison.