Doctor sentenced to 7 year Jail for Post-Mortem Manipulation in Custodial Death Matter
Chennai: The Madras High Court has upheld the judgment by a lower court here convicting seven policemen and a doctor in a case of custodial death reported in Puducherry in December 1993.
The trial court in 2002 had sentenced three policemen to seven years rigorous imprisonment (RI) and three others along with the doctor to one year RI.
Another policeman had died during the trial while three other policemen were acquitted.
Upholding the conviction, Justice M V Muralidharan observed that the public has lost faith in the police and had to seek help from the court for redress of grievances.
The notion that the police is a friend of the public remains only on paper, in reality, it is not so, the judge said.
When an ordinary citizen goes to the police station to lodge a complaint, the personnel there should receive it and inquire into it in a manner known to the law without being influenced by any political, monetary or other sources, only then would people respect and trust the police, he said.
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