Apart from Covid 19, the most covered news topic is the Sathankulam custody death of father-son. Director Arun Vaidyanathan has echoed more or less the view put out on the YouTube by this blogger. Director Vetri Maran whose film `Visaranai' on custody torture was an entry in the Oscars tweeted - Honourable judges P. N. Prakash, P. Pugazhendhi, magistrate Bharathidasan, courageous Revathi, you’ve given us hope. We stand by you. The author Chandrakumar of the book Lockup ,whose first hand experience of custodial torture was the subject of Visaranai told The Indian Express his views on the police reforms that is to be implemented.
Commenting on the Tamil Nadu Police department’s decision to conduct a behavioural course for officers under mental stress, Chandrakumat said it’s only meant to save the department’s image.“When police officers in interior towns of Madurai, Thoothukudi can abuse the judicial magistrate, do you think they will be kind to the general public? The disciplinary course is just a face-saving exercise".Chandrakumar runs an auto and was fortunate to come out alive after the Guntur police torture says that in his case, the police wanted him to be alive as they needed him to give a confession that he was the head of a 20 member robbers gang. Even when he went on hunger strike, the police did nothing to him. He points out that here the police had no need to keep the two men alive as they had no criminal record and their being in custody was illegal So the point is why were they produced before the magistrate to be remanded ?. Tell tale blood stains on the table in the Station and blood soaked lungis as well as head injuries and CCTV cameras are all evidence against the police. However , the case can be won only if you have a strong eye witness who can testify in the court, said Chandrakumar. The police here cannot escape saying that the violence was in self- defense, he said as it took place inside the station. He likened the incident to " running over a random person on the street knowingly. This is a barbaric act,”. Going by Chandrakumar's view ,the eye witness report by the woman constable has nailed the erring cops.
As I had said in my YouTube video posted in this blog, Surya and director Hari have owed their success to the various cop stories that they have come out. The famous being the Singam series which in Hindi is also Singham with Ajay Devgn. Three parts have been released. Both of them regretted having taken movies that glorified cops. To which Arun Vaidyanathan director of Tamil films and Peruchazhi with Mohanlal in Malayalam said in a tweet - "Come on, give me a break! This is not a film script, where you need to push the emotional quotient little over the top for some likes and retweets. Let's treat this as a separate incident, inquire the truth and punish the people behind them. Don't project the entire department in bad light. My prayers are with the Jeyaraj and Fenix family. I hope the justice is served soon."
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