The Special Court for Exclusive Trial of Cases under SC/ST (PoA) Act in Sivaganga on Friday imposed life sentence on 27 convicts in the 2018 Kachanatham triple murder case.
On May 28, 2018, three members of a Scheduled Caste were murdered and many sustained grievous injuries when a group of people from the dominant community attacked them with deadly weapons following a dispute over presenting temple honours in Kachanatham. Three persons K. Arumugam, A. Shanmuganathan and V. Chandrasekhar were hacked to death.