The Madurai District Court has caused a stir by ordering that murder charges be filed against Manamadurai DSP Shanmugasundaram, Thiruppuvanam Inspector Rameshkumar, Sub-Inspector Sivakumar, and constable Ilayaraja, in the custodial death murder case of security guard Ajithkumar from Madapuram in Sivagangai district, even as six people have already been arrested in the case.
When lawyers spoke to us about this, they said, "The CBI has included the names of the four current individuals in its charge sheet. It states that Ajithkumar was taken to the Thiruppuvanam police station one day before his death. The police station inspector did not properly question him and did not record in the documents that he had been brought to the police station.
The next day, Ajithkumar died because the special police team took him to 19 locations and beat and tortured him. They immediately filed a false FIR stating that Ajithkumar had been injured and died while trying to escape from custody; altered the police station logbook; and changed the CSR filed in connection with Nikitha’s complaint, creating fake documents, they had said.

However, the CBI, which said all this, had sought only the minimum punishment for this. While the district court was hearing this case, all four filed a petition in the High Court seeking a stay on this case.
At that time, High Court Judge Murugan, referring to these incidents, raised sharp questions: 'Was Ajithkumar, who was seated at the police station, a guest or an MLA? Why was no record made of why he came? During these incidents, you spoke with the inspector and the DSP 11 times; what exactly did you discuss? If you, as the DSP, did not monitor the special team yourself, then who is supposed to monitor it?' and then refused to impose a ban.

As a continuation of this, in the case that had been going on in the district court, not only those who beat Ajithkumar... but also those who instigated the attack on him should be booked, they said, adding that he has ordered murder charges to be filed against four people and ordered them to be kept in custody until the 16th. “This issue has become a turning point in the case,” they said.
We spoke to Ajithkumar’s brother, Naveen. “The DSP initially tried to broker a compromise with us. The CBI had also included his name in the charge sheet. We are happy that a murder case has now been registered against them. Everyone involved in this murder case must be punished,” he said.

Speaking about this, the Director of the People’s Watch, Henry Tiphanidan, concluded, “Since the case is in court, I cannot speak about it now.”