CHENNAI: A special court for bomb blast cases in Poonamallee has convicted a panchayat former president in the murder of a farmer in Mannargudi over a land dispute.
The accused, a former functionary of the DMK, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The court had earlier convicted an advocate and two others and sentenced them to life imprisonment too.
According to the prosecution, on December 25, 2005, the deceased Tamilselvan was walking back home when the accused including Poyyamozhi, then president of Ullikottai panchayat, attacked him. Reports stated that the gang severed his arm and escaped in an autorickshaw with it. Tamilselvan succumbed to his injuries at a hospital.
All the accused persons conspired and committed the brutal murder of Tamilselvan by repeatedly cutting his right arm and attacking him in broad day light, in full view of the public, the prosecution submitted. It stated that the murder was over a long standing enmity over property boundary dispute between Tamilselvan and his neighbour. Poyyamozhi had intervened to settle the dispute when Tamilselvan allegedly insulted Poyyamozhi. sAs explosives substances were recovered from the accused, the charges included Sections 4 & 6 of Explosives Substances Act 1908.
“Each and every fact and circumstances of the case leading to murder of Tamilselvan by all the accused are very clear, cogent, well proved and substantiated beyond doubt by ocular oral-evidence, medical evidence and confession leading to recovery,” special public prosecutor N Vijayaraj argued.
