ORDER

This is yet another incident of custodial violence. The petitioner a widow has approached this Court in the year 2014 for a writ of mandamus seeking compensation for the death of her husband Easkki Muthu and also for an appropriate action as against the officials, who are responsible for the cause of the death.

2.The case of the petitioner is that her husband Esakki Muthu was taken to the Anna Nagar Police Station, Madurai by the police officials on 13.07.2014 under the guise of an enquiry, where he was beaten brutally and he suffered serious injuries. Therefore in order to escape from the consequences, a case was foisted as against her husband for the offence under Section 302 IPC and he was also remanded to judicial custody by the learned Judicial Magistrate No.VI, Madurai on 15.07.2014 at 9.00 pm. On 21.07.2014 her husband died in the prison. The petitioner claims that she had visited her husband in the prison on the date of the incident. During her visit she found that her husband was having multiple injuries and he was not in a position to stand even for three minutes continuously. Considering the cause of death due to multiple injuries, the Superintendent of Prison, Dindi