Public opinion is overwhelmingly negative regarding the systemic police brutality and custodial deaths in Tamil Nadu. There is widespread outrage directed at the government and law enforcement's lack of accountability, with calls for immediate reforms and consequences for those responsible.

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Five policemen suspended over the death of a 29-year-old temple security guard in custody in Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga district on June 29 were arrested late on Monday night after the authorities received the post-mortem report that showed he had suffered multiple injuries, including to his head and chest, a police officer said.

In a statement, the state government said the matter was classified as a murder case based on the post-mortem report. Six policemen were suspended over the death of Ajith Kumar.

“The post-mortem was videographed \[as per the Madras high court directions in cases of custodial deaths\]. There was contusion in the head and chest,” the officer said on the condition of anonymity.

Sivaganga police superintendent Ashish Rawat was put on compulsory wait. His Ramanathapuram counterpart, G Chandeesh, will replace him.

Police picked up Kumar for questioning on June 27 after a woman filed a complaint, saying her gold jewellery kept in a bag went missing after she gave her keys to Kumar to park her car near the Madapuram Bhadrakali Amman temple.

Kumar’s brother alleged that police beat them after taking them into custody. Kumar was declared dead after he was taken to a hospital on June 29, after complaining of discomfort.

The state government has ordered a judicial inquiry even as Kumar’s family protested, alleging police brutality.

The opposition attacked the government over the death, saying there have been 24 deaths in police custody since the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) formed the government in 2021.

The opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) moved the Madras high court, urging it to take up the custodial deaths under the DMK rule.

AIADMK general secretary Edappadi Palaniswami attacked chief minister MK Stalin, saying he cannot even manage the police force that functions directly under his control. “I urge this so-called ‘Stalin-model’ of governance to immediately form a committee headed by the district judge to conduct a full investigation, take legal action against those responsible for this death, and provide compensation to the family of the deceased.”

A statement quoted Stalin asking the police to treat people who come to file complaints with dignity and take timely action. DMK’s allies urged the government to conduct an independent inquiry.

[Tamil Nadu custodial death: Autopsy shows injuries to head, chest, 5 cops held | Latest News India - Hindustan Times](https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/tamil-nadu-custodial-death-autopsy-shows-injuries-to-head-chest-5-cops-held-101751355870288.html)

[Sivaganga custodial death: Five policemen arrested in Tamil Nadu custodial torture case; victim’s body bore over 30 injury marks - The Hindu](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/sivaganga-custodial-death-case-5-policemen-arrested-victims-body-bore-over-30-injury-marks/article69757230.ece)

[Video surfaces in Tamil Nadu custodial death, shows police beating 27-year-old temple security guard with lathi in Sivagangai - Tamil Nadu News | India Today](https://www.indiatoday.in/india/tamil-nadu/story/video-shows-tn-police-assaulting-temple-security-guard-with-lathi-in-custodial-death-case-2748907-2025-07-01)

Ok-Employee-3457

Any government employee, especially a cop, found abusing power should be immediately terminated from employment, have their pensions and PF accounts cancelled and put on a blacklist that ensures they don't find any employment anywhere for the rest of their worthless lives.

hl2dumbass

In 2001-2020 1888 custodial and Judicial death cases were confirmed and only 26 cops have been convicted. 26!!!! Let that sink in.
In 2021-22 alone there have been 155 deaths in police custody and 2152 deaths in judicial custody.
This country is beyond repair. Even if we start in the correct direction it'll not be in our lifetime that we'll see progress like Japan, switzerland etc.

AurumTheOld

Goons , literal fucking goons . In no regard whatsoever is a person supposed to respect or rely on these scums. They are pawns to those in power. There have been multiple occasions where I've seen these pigs go batshit crazy on beggars, assault maids and whatnot. 

[deleted]

Cops are thugs with licensed guns and arms. They foster corruption and intimidation and never actually serve and protect the common person.

homosapienmorons

devendermahto

Do the math and answer honestly who the biggest terrorist organization of the country is.

  
How many people do terror outfits kill and how many people do cops kill in a year. Then add in all the extortion, beatings and other shit they do.

  
Damn.

nineteen47

Current_Cod5996

This is what a leftist govt would do. Those in video should be charged with murder.

Critifin

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The victim was not arrested nor was there any FIR. 

This is cold blooded murder by TN police and not custodial death.

Successful_Title6922

This is the exact kind of thing that will happen when people clamor for extra judicial “encounters”. The police is still the same colonial outfit that controls the populace instead of one enforcing laws. Mix this level of entitlement with caste biases and this is the inevitable result. A life apparently is worth 10 sovereign gold now. If a case is filed against these police, it will be slow walked like what happened at Vachathi. Police reforms are urgently needed. Indian civil services must be disbanded and power to appoint proportional leadership in police must be returned to the states.

blankasair

We need to bring a law against bathroom slip and fall cases in the police stations. Most people cheer for it.

 The government has no problem with it because they have no police problems.

erimalaiprogram

Police are scum. No more respect for them than history sheeters.

berrycatd

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There are many ways to prevent this, but once it happens, GH doctors still have an important role if they stay true to their oath. Yes, there’s pressure, threats, and police intimidation; I understand that. But if doctors give in, what happens to the system? We protested NEET by saying it’s “for the people,” especially the poor and rural. That makes sense. But when those same people die in custody, where is that spirit now?

Sad-Bicycle-9857

&gt;Six policemen from the special team have since been placed under suspension. They have been identified as Prabhu, Kannan, Sankara Manikandan, Raja, Anand, and Ramachandran. A first information report (FIR) has been registered under section 176 (procedure for investigation) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), which pertains to deaths in custody.

What if they escape? This suspension business has to end (laws need to be reformed if needed). This is a murder investigation, not a petty theft case. If a murderer on duty cannot be arrested, why is a commoner being arrested without evidence? Everyone should be equal in the eyes of the law, right from the first citizen.

gingerkdb

I am tired of this shit man. This is the same reason I wanted the ADMK shitheads to go out in 2021. These fuckers seem to be even worse than the previous lot. Any sane government/leader would have fucked up the law enforcement officers with jail time and dismissal in the first few cases itself. It is now 24. Tomorrow it might be anyone, me or you or anyone voices his displeasure against an SI/inspector. Because these assholes are sent from heaven and no humans should dare speak against them even if they are right or be born in a so called "low caste" community. I truly believed this state was free of caste terrors, but boy, oh boy, this state preaches everything good in cinema and political ads but does not car an awful lot for the actual discriminatory crimes rising day by day. I just wish there were more good people in the government, political parties and the judiciary who have done dog shit to help these atrocities, but are quick at taking up suo moto cases of shit no one cares about. I sincerely hope one of the ministers/MLAs/chief ministers get treated this way one day.

iammsd

I hope DMK is scrutinised the way ADMK was, during Sathankulam incident. Only then we may see some change. Police reforms are badly needed and it's already too late.

ImAjayS15

The number of lockup deaths seems to be increasing!!

Raj-Thinker

Remember Kadhalan movie? Prabhu Deva is beaten up by the cops and we did not see any issues with it.

I think most police stations have unofficial offices to beat people up.

arnott

The day when the news of Saathankulam incident broke out, it was sensational and spread like wildfire. The reaction was immediate and tormenting. But this hasn’t garnered any such reaction. I wonder why.

Spiritual_Draw_1869

Source [here](https://www.thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/sivaganga-custodial-death-autopsy-reveals-grievous-injuries-final-report-awaited)

NChozan

It's really pathetic to see oopies showing some random screenshot posted by a dmk member to downplay the number of lockup deaths in the current regime and saying the news minute source as fake and labeling OP as sangi.

All parties and media houses that raised their voice during admk rule are now silent now, it's a shame.

Once again they are proving oopies are no better than sangis.

swetretpet002

It appears that our police officers needed some stress-related therapy, and they do deserve a rotational holiday!

Madras-Pirate

People who doesn't have support from family or community will get forgotten.  

People with support will get police taken care

Till then this will continue

What happened to police man who killed father and son by torture

SierraBravoLima

The police need severe punishment, immediately punishing them brutally by giving SUSPENSION. It is the worst punishment. Small punishment Like registering murder cases with life time imprisonment are only for common powerless people 🤦. Let's see what they do, at least with constant attention on this matter, they will be pushed to punish those cops

CaptaINGH05T

Dravid model aatchiya korai sollathinga... Aprom oopee dogs attack panna varum

PhilosophyDefiant762

lol It will stop when these guys stop slipping on Bathroom floors and breaking their bones

DangoManUtd

What were the castes of the youth who were killed?

PackFit9651

who is that "The women" who gave the car keys to him. and later accused him.
No one is giving her name..

OkInstancenow

He was attacked in a cow shed of a temple. Not in custody. This is crime, how can they make an illegal arrest.

Puzzled_Estimate_596

Over the past year, I have been seeing Police beat ppl and torture them in public and the posts gets a lot of likes and comments like.
Jai hind, salute to police etc.
Ppl are beyond saving, they want police to kill and torture. They actually like police beating up people and then when someone dies, that they don't think deserves to die, they complain.

sath_leo

They did not even check if the ladies were telling the truth and that they had indeed lost the gold they were claiming that they lost before beginning the harsh interrogation. 

Simple_Mall_9388

On one hand TN filmmakers are making many movies where they show the atrocities of police and the harsh treatment they give to the accused. But this has the same effect on the TN police as rain falling on a Buffalo.

I'm writing this comment after reading a lot of the comments it's ironic how innocent people who don't speak back or have a hefty background or influence are treated like this even criminals don't kill people like these few men do and the ones who do engage in such brutality are called psychopaths. They don't even torture rapists like the ones who rape even small babies like they torture these innocent people. All kinds of criminals are given the best treatment possible when in custody because they are criminals who might come back to get them when they are out of the jail, but people like the brother who died can't do that nor can they fight back. It is really disgusting and disturbing to say the least. It's spine chilling to think that we have to walk among such uniformed murderers who can get away with such brutal acts and to think that even their families are so shameless to actually have the audacity to seek justice for these psychopaths. Well I wonder what kind of people they will be to live with such psychos, it's actually scarier to think of. They have the audacity to say that police stations are safe and police are your friends they are a common man's biggest problem and the worst enemies.

_mythy

Our Police department started going down the drain when high ranking IPS officers started turning instagram influencers instead of actually doing their friggin jobs.

Stop spreading disinformation do some research.

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kilovictor76

This is why Tamil Nadu needs BJP rule but many anti nationals say they are North Indian dominance with Hindi/Sanskrit dominance and they are doing religious politics. 

So what. Go and see Uttar Pradesh. It is better than TamilNadu in all aspects. North Indian are also part of India. And you anti nationals hate Hindi/Sanskrit which are part of Indian traditional and has more literature than Tamil and yet you simp for this foreign language called English. For religious politics, yes BJP is the party for Hindus. Nothing wrong with Hindus uniting. Anti nationals are taught to beleive otherwise.

Large-Atmosphere-548

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What is that 24th death sangi bastard ? Where did you get those numbers ? From bjp members ?

abikutti

&gt;Since the 20th century, there have been many public, private, and community efforts to combat police corruption and brutality. These efforts have identified various core issues that contribute to police brutality, including the insular culture of police departments (including the blue wall of silence), the aggressive defense of police officers and resistance to change in police unions, the broad legal protections granted to police officers (such as qualified immunity), the historic racism of police departments, the militarization of the police, the adoption of tactics that escalate tension (such as zero tolerance policing and stop-and-frisk), the inadequacies of police training and/or police academies, and the psychology of possessing police power. The US legal doctrine of qualified immunity has been widely criticized as "[having] become a nearly failsafe tool to let police brutality go unpunished and deny victims their constitutional rights," as summarized in a 2020 Reuters report.

Pupikal

Is Brazil not considered an “industrialized democracy”?

Gullible-Isopod3514

My father has been a school psychologist for 35 years.  The most common answer for “what do you want to be when you grow up” from Ed(emotionally disturbed) and special education students is a policeman so they can shoot the “bad guy”.  Think about that for a minute.

*We all laughed at the police brutality jokes on The Simpsons*.  There's no ignorance this time. The adults are continuing to fail.

Apprehensive-Fun4181

[Police Kill 25-30 Dogs a Day (USA)](https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/s/gy77Kq3yoC)

jkooc137

Weird how the article doesn't mention that the US police trained by the IDF.

BabylonianWeeb

American police are by far the most violent among industrialized nations. But so is the civilian population. The U.S. leads the developed world in gun deaths, mass shootings, incarceration rates, and even school shootings. There are more guns than people, and the homicide rate is several times higher than in other industrialized democracies and it’s not even close.

It’s a dark kind of irony: a violent public and a violent police force, locked in a feedback loop. One feeds the other. Fear justifies force, and force provokes more fear. It’s not law and order, it’s mutually assured aggression.



In a country where shoot first is a reflex and de-escalation sounds like weakness, it’s no surprise the streets feel more like a battlefield than a neighborhood. In a twisted way, they weren’t just made for each other, they created each other

Diplomatic-Immunity2

Nowadays most of this violence takes place in jail behind closed doors. It's also very common to neglect medical care and deny access to needed medications, and it's common to deny care to those withdrawing from drugs. Deaths within some county jails are at horrific levels. Many of those arrested and held are released without charge but they still have to pay fees for the arrest and stay.

az_iced_out

You always know the strength of an argument when the one making it has to resort to absolute numbers for obviously disparate population sizes.

CommitteeofMountains

[This is what gun ownership looks like around the world](https://assets.weforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/1601B08-gun-ownership-world-USA-Vox-world-map-1400x695.jpg)

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2016/01/this-is-what-gun-ownership-looks-like-around-the-world/

[The Countries With The Most Firearms In Civilian Hands](https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/23192.jpeg)

https://www.statista.com/chart/23192/estimated-number-of-civilian-held-legal-and-illicit-firearms/

Now ask yourself questions about guns and crime and porous borders and racism and black cops and 13-year-old gang leaders in Chicago and opioids and fentanyl and crack cocaine and heroin and meth and 2A and libertarians and both black and white culture and tough on crime and just-world hypothesis and punish-the-criminals ideology and first-past-the-post voting and individualism and profit-driven TV news and that's all I've got for now I'm omw to go get pizza in a nice part of the world but maybe later I'll go back to Ukraine or back to Afghanistan or back to Pakistan or (shudder) back to West or South Africa.

Good luck to us all.

Traveledfarwestward

While I think the United States undeniablely has a problem with police brutality, I think it's somewhat misleading to say we kill more people than any other developed countries. The United States has one of the highest murder and violent crime rates of any developed country. Of course the American police are going to kill more suspects than the English police, when the American murder rate is 5x lower than the rate in the United States. More violent crime, means that American police are going to have more justified violent encounters with people. I guarantee the numbers go the other way too. I'm sure far more American police are murdered by suspects compared to English ones.

CombinationRough8699

Police brutality is a real topic, and speaking of proportionality of representation is a stupid ideology

Raccoons-for-all

DMK poruki pasangala pathu bayam intha pottaingaluku

_gadgetFreak

robinw4yne

dont delete this post mods. this issue needs maximum coverage and considering the fact that oopis control most of the tamil subs, pls let this stay

infiunfi

Celebrities focuses on staying relevant. They voiced for jeyaraj and fenix not because they sympathise for them but because dmk did a good job as an opposition to make it a trending issue. These celebrities aren’t voicing now because current opposition(admk + bjp) sucks in making a trending topic on the flaws of dmk rule. Oopis act as a protective barrier in censoring stuff that goes against dmk in social media even if current opposition tries to make it a trending topic. r/TamilNadu mods are maanam ketta ₹200 oopis and maybe kanglus.

Broke-Dev

You might not like him, but he has made a good report on this incident, irrespective of which political party, law works differently for a common man

[arnab](https://youtu.be/-7slQWCNqsk?si=fD2ScfTkBpoEaPF1)

Budget-Ad-3876

[https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/tamil-nadu-custodial-death-autopsy-shows-injuries-to-head-chest-5-cops-held-101751355870288.html](https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/tamil-nadu-custodial-death-autopsy-shows-injuries-to-head-chest-5-cops-held-101751355870288.html)

_Red Giant enters chat_

Porattum panna padam varaadhu ok va ?!

retyfraser

I don't understand, non tamil here.

What's happening

knightsoul-99

Fear of Red Giant not distributing their movies...

vivekguptarockz

Answer: Uthayanithi Stalin will end everyone's cinema career.

Vikatan007

whiskeyandvengeance

Politicians ku vote bank, actors ku clout bank
As simple as that 

Wait untill a lenient government is formed and watch these clowns make content out of the same shamelessly

ProfessionalGoal8594

why do people here always post things with 0 context

catandthefiddler

Avanga pesuna Nala oru use um illa 
Ippo avanga pesulalunboru impact tum varathu. Antha trend mudinchi pochu.
And industry dmk control la iruku and dmk maari strong opposition party illa ippo.
Summa okkathu appo pesunanga ippo silent ta irukanga nu sollitu irukangale thavira avanga panrathu periya impact illa .
Mainly Athu corona time nammalum avangalun vettiya irunthanga athan reason

Simple-Season-8607

Correct me if I am wrong.

During that 2020 issue then CM gave official statement that those victims aren't died only coz of police torture and tried to safeguard the police dept.

Now 
Once the issue hit the news all those 6 were arrested and 5 are proven guilty and the case is now being transferring to cbi and government took responsibility and took action. 

Why do people expect cine actors and celebs to voice out.

Then all were in home under lock down.. now all got their own business..

Next-Temperature74

How are these two the same. In 2020 Felix case, government denied that it was  lockup murder and covered it up for more than a week until we got CCTV footage and proof to show it was actual police brutality.

Where in Ajithkumar case, government has not denied that it was lockup murder and 5 cops have been suspended and FIR has been booked. When action has been taken against the people responsible why do we actually need voices from actors or people in general ??? What do we actually protest for ? 

If the responsible people are not arrested people need to protest for that, now that they are arrested what is the actual need to protest , I don't know

No-Winner-2743

Here's the thing yea, celebrities do things like this just to stay relevant and because it's a trend, not because they actually care. 

When the 'Black Lives Matter' protests happened, influencers and big social media accounts in my country jumped into the bandwagon and supported it, but a year later when Indians in my country were going through police brutality, everyone was silent as it wasn't trendy to speak up against police violence against Indians.

gucchiprada

Party in opposition then pays lot of these people, ( so called influencers), now party in power pays them. 

It is the same party.

AskSmooth157

Nothing ll happen. No one has guts to talk. Even if ask will say govt acted. Even 50l settlement spoken so only family also accepted and buried the body too. Final record is only post mortem report.

BranchSevere1219

Im seeing this silence after the DMK govt.. before tat so many YouTubers used to troll the government notably Parithabangal channel but today every one is silent… I don’t support any party but this selective activism is pissing me

Acceptable_Date_3249

Tech_enthusiast001

Primary-Resident-764

I'm just gonna leave this here.

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bharadhaaa

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poi padingadaaa. Edappadi stood with the accused, hence the outrage and it took almost 15-20 days to arrest the accused.  
[https://www.thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/tamil-nadus-police-brutality-sathankulam-and-the-system-that-let-it-happen](https://www.thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/tamil-nadus-police-brutality-sathankulam-and-the-system-that-let-it-happen)

wanderrur

Dei paithiyangala..Even Virendar Sehwag, Anil Kumble, Laxman voiced out for Jayaraj-Fenix case. Are they too 200 ruba upis aah?? Guys, Think with your brain and come out of herd mentality. Previous govt took 10 days to file FIR after denying the custodial torture and stated it as natural death..Here the case is transferred to CBI in the 2nd day and govt took full responsibility. Now, what should the celebrities tweet?? What left in the case to tweet? Are you guys' real intention is to empathise with the victim and bringing justice to him or just to blame the govt and celebrities for political reasons?

yourslovinglyy

In sathankulam issue previous 🌱 govt tried to bury the issue &amp; then CM himself gave contradict statements to save police. Then only it caused an uproar, but now the culprits were suspended, arrested &amp; produced in court. I think there is no dire need since action was taken &amp; CM apologised publicly. 

P.S:  celebrities esp Suriya &amp; some others voiced out in Kallakurichi Hooch tragedy criticised current 🌅 govt &amp; police.

Which_Ad_1819

Excuse me sangi dog , that time government denied lockup death but this time government accepted mistake and asked publicly apologies for that .. thats the difference for their silence idiots

Do you ppl even know how difficult it is to transfer a case from state to CBI, and the current govt did this for the boy’s case almost immediately . Still you have got reasons to hate the party. Ugh

InvestmentThink1980

InterviewNeither9673

WittyQuark123

veromex123

Common people like us should never pay heed or give important to celebs outside the theatre. They are literally situational manipulators and opportunists. They will only act or voice in places where they will have some benefit come out of it. No matter how good they are, they would not put themselves at risk for others or fans or anything except them and their family. 

I hate celebrity activism. It is such a joke and is just void inside. Most of the posts are made by people who manage their social handles or they just use buzzer words to be relevant of other actors have spoken up. In reality they have no idea, time or care for any of this.

Smitrang

Every law was changed or altered after independence except one. That is police law. Ivanunga vasathiku adha maathala. Until the law change comes deaths will happen. Manasu full’a avalo ranam 😓😥

amal_raj_

The alleged custodial death of a temple security guard in Tamil Nadu has raised serious concerns about police brutality and accountability.

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