The story so far: The Madras High Court, on June 2, 2023, upheld the conviction of 10 men including S. Yuvaraj of Theeran Chinnamalai Gounder Peravai and the life sentence (till death without any remission) of eight of them for beheading a Dalit engineering graduate V. Gokulraj in June 2015, on the mere suspicion that he was in love with a caste Hindu girl.
Who was Gokulraj?
The 21-year-old Dalit youth V. Gokulraj was a resident of Saastha Nagar in Omalur taluk of Salem district in Tamil Nadu. He had completed Electronics and Communication Engineering course in May 2015 at a private engineering college in Tiruchengode in Namakkal district.
