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The Tamil Nadu authorities connected Wednesday (May 27, 2026) informed the Madras High Court that it intends to record a curative petition earlier the Supreme Court against the acquittal of engineering postgraduate from the 2017 intersexual battle and execution of a seven-year-old miss astatine Mugalivakkam successful Chennai.
A Division Bench of Justices G.R. Swaminathan and V. Lakshminarayanan recorded the submission made connected behalf of the authorities and closed a writ petition filed by Madurai-based advocator S. Venkatesh who had sought a absorption to the authorities to record a curative petition.
According to the prosecution, the unfortunate kid had been subjected to aggravated intersexual battle by her neighbour successful an flat analyzable earlier being murdered. He had hid the assemblage successful his location for a time earlier taking it retired successful a question container and dumping it nether a span adjacent Anakaputhur.
The adjacent day, helium went backmost to the spot and burnt the body. Further, helium enacted a play by alerting the constabulary power country aft posing arsenic a passerby who happened to accidental upon the body. Further, a fewer days earlier the proceedings was to statesman successful December 2017, the youngster, past connected bail, had murdered his parent and fled to Mumbai.
The constabulary nabbed him aft a agelong hunt and brought him backmost to Chennai to look proceedings successful some the cases. A Chengalpattu tribunal sentenced him to decease and it was confirmed by the Madras High Court excessively successful July 2018. However, connected further appeal, the Supreme Court acquitted him from each charges connected October 8, 2025. A reappraisal petition filed by the State was dismissed by the apical tribunal connected November 26, 2025.
