1. Gokulraj murder case | Madras HC upholds conviction, life sentence
The Madras High Court upheld the conviction and life sentence (till death without any remission) imposed by a trial court on S. Yuvaraj (43) of Theeran Chinnamalai Gounder Peravai and seven others for beheading Scheduled Caste engineering graduate V. Gokulraj in 2015 on mere suspicion that he was in love with a girl belonging to Kongu Vellalar community.
A Division Bench of Justices M.S. Ramesh and N. Anand Venkatesh reduced the life sentence of just two convicts M. Prabhu and P. Giridhar, arrayed as accused numbers 13 and 14, alone to five years of rigorous imprisonment after convicting them for only two charges, including the offence of harbouring an offender, under the Indian Penal Code.
