Youth’s death: High Court orders fresh post-mortem
The Hindu
Manikandan had died after release from police custody
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered the conduct of a fresh post-mortem on the body of L. Manikandan, a youth from Ramanathapuram district, who died hours after being released from police custody. His family had alleged that it was a case of custodial torture.
The victim’s mother, L. Ramalakshmi, had filed the petition, seeking the conduct of a fresh post-mortem. She said her son was beaten up by the police. She also sought a probe into his death.
Justice G.R. Swaminathan, while ordering the conduct of a second post-mortem, also took note of the fact that the police personnel present before the court were not aware of the guidelines issued by the court for the conduct of post-mortems in cases involving custodial deaths.