Dharmapuri bus burning:Bus burning case

The Madras High Court today upheld the death sentence awarded to three AIADMK activists in the Dharmapuri bus burning case in which three girl students of a Agricultural University were burnt alive in February 2000

Confirming the death sentence awarded by a lower court in Salem to Neduchezhian, Ravindran and Muniappan, a division bench comprising Justice D Murugesan and Justice B Periya Karuppiah held that the prosecution had proved the charges beyond reasonable doubt.

The bench also confirmed the conviction of 25 others in the case. But the High Court awarded maximum two years sentence to all of them instead of seven years imprisonment pronounced by the lower court on various counts.

The High Court ordered that the sentences should run concurrently and not consecutively as held by the trial court. As per the directive of the bench, the 25 accused would undergo two years RI in this case.

Courtesy:thehindu.com
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