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Police told to produce acquitted person in Aladi Aruna murder case

MADURAI: The Madras High Court Bench here on Friday directed the police to produce in court on Tuesday P. Kannan, one of the six persons acquitted in the Aladi Aruna murder case. .

A Division Bench comprising Justice R. Banumathi and Justice R. Mala passed the order as he had not engaged a lawyer for more than a year to challenge the State’s appeal against the acquittal of all the six accused, including educationist S.A. Raja.

The Principal Sessions Court in Tirunelveli had awarded death sentence to two persons, three years of imprisonment to one and acquitted six others on April 17, 2008. The convicts as well as the prosecution had appealed against the judgment.

The State’s appeal and the appeals filed by the convicts on April 2008 were clubbed together. Kannan, now lodged in the Coimbatore Central Prison in connection with another case, had not replied to a notice issued by the High Court. His failure to engage a lawyer had led to a long delay in hearing the appeals filed by the two death convicts accused of killing the former Minister and his friend near Alangulam in Tirunelveli district on December 31, 2004.

Earlier in the day, it was represented that M. Veldurai, another convict sentenced to three years in the same murder case on charges of possessing a revolver without a licence, too had not engaged a lawyer to conduct the case. The Judges directed the police to produce him also from the Cuddalore prison before the court on July 7. However, the order was modified after a lawyer submitted that she would represent him in the court.

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