MADURAI: Lambasting police and a subordinate courtroom for letting move Scott-free the authors of Dinakaran newspaper administrative center arson case, that left 3 folks lifeless in 2007, Madras top courtroom reversed an order of acquittal and sentenced nine folks to existence imprisonment on Thursday. The convicts include 'Attack' Pandi, a former aide of ousted DMK leader M Okay Alagiri, and deputy superintendent of police Rajaram. However, relating to the latter the courtroom would divulge the quantum of jail time period on March 25.
The courtroom further directed the Tamil Nadu executive to pay a compensation of Rs five lakh every to the families of the bereaved within a length of three months.
Citing that the trial courtroom acquitted all of the accused as a result of virtually every witness became adverse, a department bench of justice P N Prakash and justice B Pugalendhi mentioned it was once unfortunate that the trial courtroom had abdicated its judicial duty to seek the reality and, instead, deployed a specious line of reasoning to reach at a verdict of acquittal.
“If a witness turns into adverse to subvert the judicial process, the courtroom shall not stand as a mute spectator and every effort should be made to convey home the reality. Criminal justice gadget cannot be overturned by means of the ones gullible witnesses who act beneath force, inducement or intimidation,” mentioned the bench.
Dinakaran administrative center at Madurai in 2007 was once torched by means of vandals on May 9, 2007, after it published the result of an opinion poll which suggested that M Okay Stalin had larger public approval as political successor to DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi than his elder brother M Okay Alagiri. Three Dinakaran team of workers contributors -- Vinoth Kumar, Gopinath and Muthuramalingam -- were killed within the incident. The case was once later taken over by means of the CBI, which booked 17 folks, together with the then DSP Rajaram, for facilitating the assault.
On December 9, 2009, the trial courtroom acquitted the accused of all charges, as key witnesses became adverse. In all, of the 83 prosecution witnesses 49 became adverse. It incorporated 21 police team of workers and 15 witnesses from the click, together with colleagues of the deceased.
Calling the bluff of the prosecution, the bench headed by means of justice Prakash mentioned there might be no larger affront to administration of justice than inaccurate acquittals in legal instances as a result of witnesses turning adverse. “The very edifice of the legal law is compromised when the enforcement machinery of the State is subverted and the perpetrators of crime stroll out Scott-free,” the bench mentioned.
As ‘Attack’ Pandi is already in Palayamkottai jail, serving time in connection with another case, the courtroom directed the other accused -- Prabhu, Vijaya Pandi, P Kandasamy, G Ramaiah Pandian, V Sudhakar, Thirumurugan @ Kattuvasi Murugan, I Ruban and Malik Batcha -- to be secured.
The courtroom set aside the acquittal of the DSP Rajaram and convicted him for lesser offences beneath Sections 217 (public servant disobeying law to avoid wasting individual from punishment) and 221 (deliberately omits to apprehend a suspect) of IPC. It directed Rajaram to seem sooner than the courtroom on March 25 to decide on quantum of his sentence.
The courtroom further directed the Tamil Nadu executive to pay a compensation of Rs five lakh every to the families of the bereaved within a length of three months.
Citing that the trial courtroom acquitted all of the accused as a result of virtually every witness became adverse, a department bench of justice P N Prakash and justice B Pugalendhi mentioned it was once unfortunate that the trial courtroom had abdicated its judicial duty to seek the reality and, instead, deployed a specious line of reasoning to reach at a verdict of acquittal.
“If a witness turns into adverse to subvert the judicial process, the courtroom shall not stand as a mute spectator and every effort should be made to convey home the reality. Criminal justice gadget cannot be overturned by means of the ones gullible witnesses who act beneath force, inducement or intimidation,” mentioned the bench.
Dinakaran administrative center at Madurai in 2007 was once torched by means of vandals on May 9, 2007, after it published the result of an opinion poll which suggested that M Okay Stalin had larger public approval as political successor to DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi than his elder brother M Okay Alagiri. Three Dinakaran team of workers contributors -- Vinoth Kumar, Gopinath and Muthuramalingam -- were killed within the incident. The case was once later taken over by means of the CBI, which booked 17 folks, together with the then DSP Rajaram, for facilitating the assault.
On December 9, 2009, the trial courtroom acquitted the accused of all charges, as key witnesses became adverse. In all, of the 83 prosecution witnesses 49 became adverse. It incorporated 21 police team of workers and 15 witnesses from the click, together with colleagues of the deceased.
Calling the bluff of the prosecution, the bench headed by means of justice Prakash mentioned there might be no larger affront to administration of justice than inaccurate acquittals in legal instances as a result of witnesses turning adverse. “The very edifice of the legal law is compromised when the enforcement machinery of the State is subverted and the perpetrators of crime stroll out Scott-free,” the bench mentioned.
As ‘Attack’ Pandi is already in Palayamkottai jail, serving time in connection with another case, the courtroom directed the other accused -- Prabhu, Vijaya Pandi, P Kandasamy, G Ramaiah Pandian, V Sudhakar, Thirumurugan @ Kattuvasi Murugan, I Ruban and Malik Batcha -- to be secured.
The courtroom set aside the acquittal of the DSP Rajaram and convicted him for lesser offences beneath Sections 217 (public servant disobeying law to avoid wasting individual from punishment) and 221 (deliberately omits to apprehend a suspect) of IPC. It directed Rajaram to seem sooner than the courtroom on March 25 to decide on quantum of his sentence.
Dinakaran office arson: Life term for 9
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