HC directs appearnce of Collector, SP

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court today directed the Tuticorin district Superintendent of Police and the Collector to appear before it on July 6 in connection with a petition against 'malicious' prosecution of two men accused of "murdering" a woman.
Petitioners V Kovilpillai and K Balasubramanian, both Scheduled Caste and accused of "murdering" a woman in 2002, have demanded compensation for illegal detention and torture besides seeking action against the police personnel who had detained them illegally.
The officials were charged with killing the woman, who however, appeared before the District Collector in 2002 and said she was not murdered and had gone to Chennai where she lived with a man and got children.

The petitioners had also made representations to the Collector and the SP to take action against the police officers who had detained them "illegally" and tortured them.
The declaration of the trial court that the woman had been murdered "holds good. But the petitioners were demanding compensation for illegal detention torture and they were demanding action against the DSP, the Inspectors and the Sub inspectors who detained them illegally.