A 23-year-old Dalit engineering student who married an upper caste woman was hacked to death in Tamil Nadu four years ago.
The main accused in the case was acquitted by the Madras High Court today, the accused is woman’s father who had earlier been issued a death sentence by the High COurt.
In December 2017, six men, including the woman’s father, were given death penalty by a lower court for the daylight murder of V Sankar at a market in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruppur in March 2016.
The young man’s wife, Kausalya, who was 19 at the time and was accompanying Sankar, was also attacked by the bike-borne men.www.parkviewortho.com/wp-content/languages/new/lasix.html
Kausalya’s father Chinnasamy had allegedly ordered her husband’s killing.
The Madras High Court today sentenced the five other accused to life imprisonment for a minimum of 25 years without any right to remission. Kausalya’s father and the others had challenged the death sentence in the high court.