HC Sentences Nine To Life Term For Dinakaran Attack

Reverses trial court acquittal, convicts police officer as well.

- B. Tilak Chandar

Over nine years after a trial court acquitted those involved in the 2007 attack on the office of Tamil daily Dinakaran, which left three employees dead, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday sentenced nine persons, including key accused ‘Attack’ Pandi, to life imprisonment.

A Division Bench comprising Justices P.N. Prakash and B. Pugalendhi delivered the verdict on the appeal preferred by the CBI and a revision petition filed by the mother of one of the victims.

Compensation awarded