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The Principal District and Sessions Court astatine the Combined Court Complex successful Tiruvannamalai has convicted a erstwhile DMK MLA and six others and sentenced them to beingness imprisonment successful transportation with the execution of a husbandman implicit a onshore quality adjacent Vandavasi municipality successful May 2014.
Judge P. Mathusuthanan delivered the verdict, sentencing the 7 persons to beingness imprisonment, with a good of ₹8,000. The convicted persons are Kamalakannan (37), the erstwhile MLA who represented the Vandavasi Assembly constituency, Mathiyazhagan (35), Nandagopal (29), Irusappan (51), Perumal (45), Sudhakaran (35), and Duraimurugan (30).
The justice examined 20 witnesses earlier uncovering the accused guilty. The tribunal bid besides said that if the good magnitude is not paid, the convicted persons would person to service an further 3 months of imprisonment.
The constabulary said that the victim, Munusamy (40), was a husbandman successful Sengadu colony which falls nether the Cheyyar taluk successful the district. Along with his woman Ponni, Munusamy had been cultivating his farmland for galore years. He reportedly had a onshore quality with his comparative Perumal and Irusappan, some of whom were convicted.
The constabulary said that successful favour of Perumal and Irusappan, erstwhile MLA Kamalakannan and the others reportedly intervened successful the quality connected May 15, 2014, erstwhile the unfortunate Munusamy was heading to his farmland. As heated arguments went retired of control, some parties exchanged blows, successful which Munusamy was severely injured.
Munusamy was rushed to the Government Taluk Hospital successful Vandavasi and aboriginal to a authorities infirmary successful Chennai wherever helium succumbed to his injuries. Based connected a ailment by Munusamy’s woman Ponni, a lawsuit was registered by the Anakavoor police.
Trial of case
The proceedings of the lawsuit was held astatine the District Principal Sessions Court astatine the Tiruvannamalai District Combined Court complex. Following the verdict, the convicted persons were lodged successful the Central Prison successful Vellore.
The constabulary said Kamalakannan was the lad of erstwhile DMK MLA Jayaraman, who served arsenic the Vandavasi MLA from 2006. After Jayaraman’s abrupt death, Kamalakannan contested arsenic a DMK campaigner and won successful the by-election held successful 2009.
