Kausalya owes to seek justice for her killed husband in Supreme Court after the Madras high court today, June 22, acquitted the first accused. A division bench passed orders today on the appeal against the judgment of the Tirupur District court sentencing six to death. All these six were found guilty of killing 22 years old Sankar, the husband of Kausalya. Also, the Madras High Court reduced the death sentence of the other five to 25 years of imprisonment.
Background of Sankar honor killing: Sankar, a Dalit and Kausalya from the Thevar community, fell in love while studying in an engineering college in Pollachi. They got married against the wishes of Kausalya's family in 2015 and were living happily in Sankar's house in Udamalpet. On March 13, 2016, when Kausalya and her husband were waiting for a bus in the Udamalpet bus stand, a three-member gang attacked them in broad daylight.
There was CCTV footage of the three hacking Sankar to death and injuring Kausalya. The police filed the case in the Tirupur district court, which awarded death sentence to six of the eleven accused. One of the main accused is Chinnasamy, the father of Kausalya. The Tirupur court also acquitted Annalakshmi, the mother of Kausalya, and two others while giving minimum prison terms to two others.