The Kerala High Court has set aside the conviction of five police officials, including two personnel who had been sentenced to death by a CBI court, in connection with the alleged custodial torture that is suspected to have led to the death of Udayakumar, a youth from Thiruvananthapuram in 2005.

The CBI had taken over the probe into the case in 2008 after Udayakumar’s mother Parvathy Amma approached the High Court.