Overview

• The video, now before the Kunnamkulam First Class Judicial Magistrate Court, shows Sub-Inspector Nuhman with CPOs Shashindran, Sandeep and Sajeevan beating V. S. Sujith inside the station on April 5, 2023.
• Congress leaders Ramesh Chennithala and V. D. Satheesan demanded the immediate dismissal of the accused officers after the footage became public.
• A court-ordered medical examination found Sujith was not intoxicated, and later tests documented partial hearing loss attributed to the custodial assault.
• Police filed an FIR alleging drunken misconduct and obstruction by Sujith rather than registering an assault case, and his early complaints drew no prompt action.
• After months of refusals to share the recording, Sujith secured the footage through an RTI appeal that led the State Information Commission to order release, aligning with an earlier Crime Records Bureau report citing the same CCTV.