The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the death sentence imposed on three accused in the Dharmapuri bus burning case. They are said to be belonging to the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
A Bench of Justice P.P. Naolekar and Justice Lokeshwar Singh Panta suspended the death sentence while admitting appeals filed by C. Muniappan, Nedunchezhian and Ravindran, challenging the Madras High Court judgment confirming the trial court’s order awarding death sentence to the three accused.
The Bench after hearing senior counsel Sushil Kumar, Ranjit Kumar and U.R. Lalit, for the petitioners and senior counsel Altaf Ahmed for the State directed the Tamil Nadu government to file all the records in the court expeditiously.
The case relates to the death of three girl students – Kokilavani, Gayathri and Hemalatha – of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. The bus in which they were travelling along with 44 other students and two teachers was torched on February 2, 2000 following the conviction of AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa in a criminal case.
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