The judgment in the Sattankulam custodial torture case arrived with the fragrance of justice. The court found nine policemen guilty of the torture and murder of Jayaraj and Benicks, and sentenced them to death. That the father-son duo were beaten to death for keeping their shop open 15 minutes after COVID curfew — as claimed by the police but debunked by the CBI probe — was horrific, but the process of law that followed was bone chilling. That injustice is what the Madurai First Additional District and Sessions judge corrected, activists and the victims’ kin tell C. Palanivel Rajan