

State Human Rights Commission Tamil Nadu has taken suo motu cognizance of the offence and asked the Police Department to file a reply in this regard. Copies of both reports of the autopsy and inquest were submitted to the high court. An order was given to videograph the autopsy, which the court ordered to be done by a panel of three experts in the presence of a magistrate after the police completed its inquest proceedings. Pugalendhi ordered the Superintendent of Police, Thoothukudi, to inquire into the incident and submit a status report. The Madurai bench of Madras High Court took suo motu cognizance of the matter and on 24 June, a bench consisting of Justices P.N. Jeyaraj died due to a punctured lung while undergoing treatment. Jeyaraj was admitted at Government Hospital, Kovilpatti by the authorities of Sub Jail, Kovilpatti on the same day at 10:30 pm. On 22 June 2020, while Beniks was undergoing treatment at Government Hospital, Kovilpatti, he died at 9:00 pm, due to heavy internal bleeding.D.Saravanan was complacent in his duty and took the side of the police in a casual way. Without following the protocol to examine, D.Saravanan waved his hands to the police to take them away. D.Saravanan came out and stood at the balcony of his house when the team of police were standing around Jayaraj and Beniks at the entrance. After that, they were taken to Sathankulam Magistrate D Saravanan, who remanded the injured duo in custody without examining their physical condition. The medical fitness certificate was provided by Doctor Vennila. The police took Jeyaraj and Beniks to Kovilpatti Hospital for medical fitness testing. On 20 June 2020, according to the duo's lawyer Maniraman, they had to change as many as six lungis due to the profuse bleeding from their rectums.Lawyers were not allowed to meet Beniks or his father until 20 June. Police volunteers present inside the station also allegedly started assaulting the duo. Eyewitness say that violence inside the police station escalated when Sub-Inspector Raghu Ganesh arrived. According to Beniks's friends, they heard the police shout " How you dare speak against the police". Soon, friends of Beniks, who are lawyers, gathered outside the police station.

When he went in to question why his father had been taken to the station, he was allegedly assaulted. Beniks was called in by the police while he was waiting outside. Worried about his father, Beniks and the friend rushed to the Sathankulam police station. On 19 June 2020, around 7:30 pm, Beniks was in his shop near the Kamarajar statue in Sathankulam town when his friend rushed to him with the news that his father Jeyaraj had been picked up by the police.On 19 June 2020, according to multiple eyewitnesses, the Sathankulam police had picked up on Jeyaraj and taken him to the police station to conduct an inquiry about an argument that had allegedly taken place between the police and a few others near Jeyaraj's wood workshop the previous day. 2 High Court and Human Rights Commission.The custodial death of the two men in Tamil Nadu's Sathankulam town in Thoothukudi district sparked massive outrage in the state over police brutality. The following day, 22 June 2020, his father also died. On 22 June 2020, Beniks fell ill and was moved to the Kovilpatti General Hospital, where he died later that day. they were sexually assaulted and tortured by the police while in custody, leading to their deaths. However CBI in chargesheet claimed there were no violation of the lockdown rules.

An FIR was filed against the two on 19 June and both were taken into custody. According to the police, the duo was held for allegedly keeping their mobile accessories shop open beyond permissible hours on June 19. Beniks (also spelled Fennix, Bennix) (31 years old) were picked up for inquiry by the Tamil Nadu Police in Sathankulam, Thoothukudi district for allegedly violating the Indian government's COVID-19 lockdown rules. In the court of :Principal District and Sessions Judge Three doctors conducted post-mortem in the presence of the judicial magistrate. Sathankulam, Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India.
