T.R. Ami and T.R. Savera, daughters of Roopesh and Shyna, have alleged that they were not allowed to meet their parents.
Addressing reporters outside the Coimbatore Central Prison on Wednesday, the girls said that though they had the necessary papers with them and also complied with the formalities, the prison authorities refused permission, despite their waiting from 10 a.m.
The younger girl, Savera, said that they got to see their parents for only a few minutes when they boarded a police van on Wednesday evening. They could not even hand over the clothes they had. She said that she had last seen her parents in 2008.
Ami said that her parents were “innocent” and wondered why the police had arrested them.
Rasheed, a member of the human rights organisation Janukiya Manushya Avakasa Prasthanam, said the girls being denied permission to meet their parents was not right.
One of the five accused, C. Kannan, while leaving the prison to go to the court, alleged that the five faced mental torture inside the prison on Tuesday night as the police continued their interrogation without letting them sleep. He denied physical torture, though.
