NGT is an umbrella body created to ensure all bodies under Schedule-I of the NGT Act work in tandem, says Supreme Court<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nOn June 19 last year, during the Covid-19 lockdown, Jayaraj and Bennix (also spelled Bennicks) were taken into custody on the allegation that they had kept their mobile phone shop open beyond permissible hours. After their death in custody on June 22, the Tamil Nadu government handed over the investigation to the CBI, which chargesheeted nine police personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Apex Court on May 25, 2021 issued notice in the petition but refused to give an urgent listing for the same during the summer vacation. The custodial deaths of the duo had sparked largescale public protests and social media outrage across the country. The Madras High Court took suo motu cognizance of the matter and ordered the Superintendent of Police, Thoothukudi, to inquire into the incident and submit a status report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Supreme Court today refused to grant bail to two police officers accused in the case of custodial deaths of a man and his son in Tamil Nadu. The bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari refused to grant bail to Inspector S. Sridhar and Sub-Inspector P. Raghu Ganesh who were charge-sheeted as accused by the CBI in the Jayaraj-Bennix case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[246,64],"tags":[40,108978,95927,104275,108979,20232,60322,92315],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2021\/03\/11144306\/SC-pastel-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}