Nagarcoil trader assaulted in jail, died from injuries: CB-CID

Sabari Varman, a 34-year-old differently abled trader who died in Nagercoil district prison on July 13 was tied up with strips of his own lungi and beaten up by prison staff and fellow prisoners, causing grievous injuries and breathlessness leading to his death around 3 am, the CB-CID said in a 12,000-page chargesheet filed before the Nagercoil Judicial Magistrate Court no. 1 on October 12.