Five sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering Scheduled Caste man in Madurai
The Hindu
Five men sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2016 murder of a Scheduled Caste man in Madurai over land encroachment disputes.
The Third Additional District and Sessions Court (PCR) in Madurai awarded life sentences to five persons belonging to a dominant intermediate caste for murdering a Scheduled Caste man who complained against encroachment on government poramboke land in Odaipatti in Madurai district in 2016.
Judge K. Dhamodharan awarded life sentences to M. Sampathkumar, M. Paramasivam, M. Sekar, R. Ramkumar, and G. Boominathan. The court imposed a fine of ₹6,000 each on them. Another accused in the case, M. Seshan, died during the trial.
The case of the prosecution was that in 2015, A. Chinna Karuppiah, who belonged to a Scheduled Caste, had submitted a petition to the Madurai Collector complaining against M. Sampathkumar, who had allegedly encroached on 1.20 acres of government poramboke land in Odaipatti.
Sampathkumar and his brothers Seshan and Paramasivam, along with their relative Sekar and friends Ramkumar and Boominathan, conspired to murder Chinna Karuppiah.
On January 21, 2016, when Chinna Karuppiah was riding his two-wheeler near a rice mill in Odaipatti, the group intercepted him, hurled casteist slurs, and hacked him to death.
The Karuppayurani police had registered a case under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
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