Custodial Deaths in India: Three Decades of Documented Failure By Amit A. Patil | Independent Legal Practitioner | Bombay High Court Estimated reading time: 12 minutes On April 6, 2026, a sessions court in Madurai sentenced nine Tamil Nadu police officers to death for the custodial murder of a father and his son. The nation called it justice. Lawyers called it something more complicated: a landmark verdict in a country that has been producing landmark verdicts on custodia