Mersal Madras HC

The Madras High Court on Friday upheld the conviction and life sentence awarded to eight people in connection with the murder of a Scheduled Caste engineering student Gokulraj in 2015 in Tamil Nadu's Tiruchengode (Namakkal district), on suspicion that he was in a relationship with an upper caste woman. The court altered the charges against two others accused in the crime to imprisonment for five years. Ten people, against whom the Madurai special sessions court handed out the life imprisonment till death without remission sentence in March 2022, appealed against the judgment. A division bench comprising justices M S Ramesh and N Anand Venkatesh dismissed their appeals today and confirmed the earlier verdict in the case. The bench said it found no perversity in the trial court's judgment convicting the accused. "We remained conscious of the fact that moral conviction has no place in criminal jurisprudence," the bench said. In order to arrive at a conclusion, the court examined seve

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