Last month, after the Madras High Court upheld the life sentence handed to Yuvaraj, prime accused in the murder of Dalit youth Gokulraj, several online ‘fan pages’ dedicated to him expressed disappointment with the verdict.
Yuvaraj, who is from the dominant Gounder caste, was convicted on June 2 for abducting and murdering Gokulraj in 2015 on the suspicion that he was in love with Swathi, a woman from Yuvaraj’s community. Gokulraj was beheaded and his body was found on a railway track in Namakkal.
