The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday (April 24, 2026) ordered notice to the nine policemen who were sentenced to death by a court in Madurai in the case of custodial death of trader P. Jayaraj, 58, and his son J. Benicks, 31, at Sattankulam in Thoothukudi district in June 2020.

A Division Bench of Justices N. Anand Venkatesh and K.K. Ramakrishnan, hearing the referred trial, ordered notice to the convicts: the then Sattankulam inspector, S. Sridhar; sub-inspectors P. Raghu Ganesh and K. Balakrishnan; head constables S. Murugan and A. Saamidurai; and constables M. Muthuraj, S. Chelladurai, X. Thomas Francis, and S. Veilumuthu.