India, Oct. 8 -- A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Tuesday convicted two former police personnel-a police sub-inspector (PSI) and a head constable (HC) then attached to the Ghatkopar police station-in a September 2009 custodial death case, and sentenced them to seven years' imprisonment. It also imposed a fine of Rs.62,000 each on the two convicts-ex-PSI Sanjay Sudam Khedekar and ex-head constable Raghunath Vithoba Kolekar-of which Rs.1,00,000 will go to the mother of the victim as compensation.

The case pertained to the custodial death of Altaf Kadir Shaikh, who died within hours of the police picking him up from his residence at 4 am on September 11, 2009 in connection with a house break-in. According to the find...