Death sentence for 3 AIADMK men for bus fire

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has confirmed the death sentence for three AIADMK members for setting a bus on fire in which three college students were killed.

In 2000, more than 40 students and two teachers were in a bus that was attacked by AIADMK members to protest against the conviction of their chief, Jayalalithaa, in a criminal case.

The Supreme Court described the attack as "barbaric and heinous and a crime against society." It also condemned the police for not helping the students on board the bus. "At the time of the incident, police media were present at the place of incident. None of them came for help. The police should not have been silent. Why the police didn't help?" asked the court.

The death sentence had first been given by a trial court in Salem and was then upheld by the Madras High Court in 2007.



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