Elipe Dharma Rao, J.

The appellant herein has filed W.P.No.22366 of 1993 praying to issue a Writ of Mandamus, directing the respondents to take appropriate action against the culprits involved in her husband Natarajan Chettiars custodial death and jointly or severally to pay fair and adequate damages and compensation of Rs.5 lakhs to the family of the deceased.

2. The case of the petitioner is that her husband Natarajan Chettiar was a pawn broker dealing with buying and selling of artificial diamonds and jewels on commission basis and in the month of August, 1993, one Kullah Achary alias Subramani, who was also in the same business, had given some jewels to her husband for selling and on 11.9.1993, the 5th respondent with a police party came to Vaniyambadi and enquired her husband and others about the jewels and only at that point of time, her husband came to know that the jewels were stolen ones; that the 5th respondent required her husband and others to come with him to Tiruvannamalai Police Station and demanded huge amount as bribe; that on receiving the information about the arrest of her husband, she sent her elder son Sridhar and thereafter her another son Anandha