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This story is part of our series on Police Impunity in India. Reporters from The News Minute and Newslaundry are travelling across states to bring you stories of negligence and abuse of power by the police, and how minorities and marginalised sections suffer the most.

Around 2 in the afternoon on February 13 this year, Gunasekaran, an advocate based in Tamil Nadu’s Karur, got a call from Kalimuthu, a young advocate who worked with him. Kalimuthu’s classmate from law college, Sanker, had died earlier that day at the Government Medical College Hospital while in judicial custody. Could Gunasekaran help with the legal procedures?

The Lalapet police in Karur had arrested Sanker on February 6 when he tried to intervene in a fight betwe

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