The footage emerged amid allegations by the man’s family that he died due to police torture.
Two weeks after a man died in police custody in Chennai, unverified close circuit television footage showed two personnel chasing and then beating up the man, NDTV reported on Tuesday. The footage emerged amid allegations by the man’s family that he died due to police torture. The man, Vignesh, and his friend Suresh were held in Chennai’s Kellys area on April 18 for allegedly possessing drugs. The police claimed that the next morning, Vignesh started vomiting and had a seizure after having breakfast. He was taken to a hospital, but doctors pronounced him dead on arrival, they said. However, footage that emerged on social media on Monday showed a man, purportedly Vignesh, being chased by two police personnel. The police personnel can be seen catching hold of him and then beating him up. The footage was from April 19.
