The Madras High Court on Thursday, May 9, 2024 closed a habeas corpus petition (HCP) filed by the mother of YouTuber ‘Savukku’ Shankar alias A. Shankar after directing the prison authorities to consider her representation for shifting her son from Coimbatore central prison to any other prison since she complained of custodial violence and feared threat to his life.
Justices A.D. Jagadish Chandira and R. Kalaimathi passed the orders after hearing senior counsel R. John Sathyan for the petitioner A. Kamala and Additional Public Prosecutor E. Raj Thilak for the prison authorities. The judges also took note that Mr Shankar had been taken to Coimbatore Government Medical College Hospital on Thursday for examining his complaint of pain in the right forearm.
Pointing out the habeas corpus petition had been filed seeking a judicial inquiry into the alleged custodial violence, the judges told the petitioner’s counsel that the prisoner himself had filed a similar petition before the Coimbatore Judicial Magistrate IV who, in turn, had directed a team from the District Legal Services Authority to visit him in the prison along with a doctor.
