Within hours of commencing investigation, sleuths of the Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) on Wednesday arrested one of the sub-inspectors of police, Raghu Ganesh, after altering the case of custodial death of trader Jayaraj and his son Benicks into a murder case under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.
The State investigating agency has named Sub Inspectors Balakrishnan, Raghu Ganesh and constables Murugan and Murhuraj. A hunt is on to nab all the other accused in the case that attracted the wrath of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court as the traders died in judicial custody.
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Earlier, the Thoothukudi district police had registered a case under Section 174 (suspicious deat