Tensions are simmering in Tamil Nadu due to the brutal deaths of a father and his son after being allegedly tortured in police custody by the Thoothukudi police division at the Kovilpatti sub-jail. According to those who witnessed the savage assault on a Thoothukudi-based shopkeeper Jayaraj P and his son J Benicks, police officers had inserted hard objects inside the latter's rectum, as well.

The victims died in the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday at the hospital after spending a brief period at the jail post being remanded to judicial custody. After the Indian National Congress' twitter handle made public the caste names of the victims, the issue is also being seen from the perspective of a caste-based atrocity.

Sources say Sathankulam police attacked Fenix badly for protesting against beating his father in the station, and there had been an altercation. Police had beaten both father and son black and blue at Kovilpatti sub-jail as well, sources added.

We pleaded with them to stop the assault. We could hear it (the assault) from over 200 yards of the place,” they said. Lawyer Ravichandran, who had been present when the victims were taken to the hospital, said Benicks had to change his lungi (a lower-body garment worn by men in the state) several times because of copious bleeding.

THIRTEEN POLICE PERSONNEL WERE INVOLVED IN THIS BRUTAL KILLING FOR NO JUST REASON.I HOPE THE TN STATE GOVERNMENT AND THE TN TRADERS ASSOCIATION TAKE RESPECTIVE ACTIONS AND PUNISH THE CRIMINALS AKA "PUBLIC SERVANTS" ACCORDINGLY. THANKYOU IN ADVANCE.