WATCH | Duo break through CM Vijay's security cordon outside Chennai Secretariat, demand justice in Sivaganga case

The area outside the Chennai Secretariat on Thursday afternoon suddenly became the site of a protest, with at least two people detained over the security lapse for CM C. Joseph Vijay.

An official said that the duo were parents of a custodial death victim, who had attempted to break through a police cordon at the scene in a frantic bid to stop the Chief Minister's convoy and allegedly petition him.

However, the police overpowered the couple and detained them, the official told PTI.

Visuals from the scene show two men running past the police cordon in the area to reach CM Vijay's convoy and try to stop his car, after which the couple followed them and tried to petition for justice.

The police first caught the two men, who made it all the way to one of the cars in his convoy, which temporarily stopped the remaining cars behind it. However, THE WEEK could not independently verify the authenticity of the viral security lapse video.

An initial inquiry revealed that the people who broke through were the parents and relatives of Akash Delison, a 26-year-old Dalit youth who was allegedly killed amid custodial torture at the Manamadurai Police Station in Tamil Nadu's Sivaganga district.

Just two days after being detained in connection with a murder case on March 6 this year, Delision died at the Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) in Madurai, sparking backlash and initiating a CB-CID probe into the alleged hate crime against a member of the Hindu Devendrakula Vellalar, a Scheduled Caste (SC) community.

The CB-CID chargesheet that the six accused policemen were named in had pointed out that they had known about the victim's caste identity before the alleged custodial torture—grounds for the application of not just the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), but also the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Delison's parents, who had earlier alleged that they were given access to the chargesheet only weeks after it was filed, on Thursday claimed that the six accused had been walking free, despite being named in the chargesheet, and demanded their arrests.