The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court.
Madurai Bench of Madras High Court orders Rs 5 lakh compensation each to families of three employees killed in the arson.
Over nine years after a trial court acquitted all accused in the case of attack on the Madurai office of Tamil daily Dinakaran that left three employees dead, the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) on Thursday sentenced nine persons, including key accused ‘attack’ Pandi to life imprisonment.
A Division Bench of Justices P.N. Prakash and B. Pugalendhi delivered the verdict in the appeal preferred by the CBI against the verdict of the Principal District and Sessions court, Madurai. The lower court acquitted the 17 accused for want of sufficient evidence.
Holding the State vicariously liable, the court ordered a compensation of ₹5 lakh each to the families of the three deceased employees.
In 2007, the Dinakaran carried a survey on who was the preferred choice to be the political heir of then DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi.
Following the publication of the survey results that favoured M.K. Stalin, a mob led by ‘attack’ Pandi, then a close aide of former Union Minister M.K. Alagiri, hurled petrol bombs at the newspaper’s office in Madurai.
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