We need to have a Police Force for internal maintenance of law and order, if not there will be catastrophe. So, there are personnel who are good and bad in every occupation and profession. The same is with Advocates and Doctors.

We have come across lots of hospitals burying ethics to mint money on this pandemic by suppressing facts to the Patients. By charging lakhs of rupees for administering very basic [over the counter] medicines on the guise of curing them for Corona Pandemic is another way cheating and which is happening in a broad day light under the very nose of the State Administration!

Our conventional beliefs were twisted against us to believe that – if a person dies in a hospital we tend to believe that it was a natural death – but several times – it wasn’t. A medical negligence could be found in such death!

Coming to Sathankulam Father & Son’s unlawful detention’s death;

No doubt, the biggest crime committed by the Sathankulam Police. But, even the worst ever inept handling of the Crime came to notice from the State, the Hospital, the Remand Court and the Prison Authority.

The State did not make a move to register an FIR immediately against those Police personnel who breached their service rules and against whom the benefit of doubt overwhelmingly arose for causing grievous injuries on the victim – Father and Son of Sathankulam.

Whereas, the Remand Court who remanded the victim to the Police / Judicial Custody did not make a procedural enquiry on blood oozing. I would like to emphasis here from the eyewitnesses [quoted by majority of the media] alleged that they saw clothes were soaked in blood. And in such case, when blood was continuously oozing and this continued even after they were put in Jail then how come the Magistrate failed to notice such injuries?   

Another procedural lapses is that when the victim were taken to the Hospital for body check-up and how come the Doctor who attended them failed to take note of such grievous injuries.

Thirdly, neither the Doctors in the Prison nor the Prison Authorities have taken note of such grievous injuries while admitting the victim inside the prison!

Were not those aberrations made us to believe – All in game!

The State by delaying registering an FIR and by not conducting a thorough probe on the deaths by deploying a dedicated team immediately when the news hit the headline, globally – all these led us to believe that either the State was indecisive and or had no acumen on how to respond to such situation or by and large the State might have had an apprehension – it may demoralize the Police force. But whatever assertions let the State can place in its support – delay in registering an FIR is an embarrassing question for the prosecution.    

It may also be taken note that an inquiry conducted by the Magistrate identified by the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, he instead wrote a lengthy letter to the Judiciary about police obstructing his duty could have exemplified his action by registering an FIR against all the Police personnel who obstructed and intimidated him from doing his work. But the Magistrate had not done that despite law allows him to take such extreme steps. This is another serious lapse in this case.

So all above blunders are required to be cured by the new investigating agency by not spilling out evidences favouring accused. Since this case has only limited evidences in the hands of the investigating agency and it will have to work in tandem with the Prosecution to produce its evidences before the Trial Court diligently.