Tindivanam: A court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced six men to life imprisonment for the killing of a PMK functionary in violence at Marakkanam near here which had led to a political storm in Tamil Nadu nearly three years ago.
Violence had erupted on April 25, 2013, between workers of the PMK, a party dominated by Vanniyars, a most backward community (MBC), and villagers — some of them Dalits — off Marakkanam near here. At that time, the PMK workers were on their way to Mamallapuram for a party meet. In the violence which saw torching of buses, shops and some hutments, two men, Selvaraj and Vivek, both PMK functionaries, were found dead.
It was alleged by PMK that both were murdered and the case was transferred to CB-CID on May 12, 2013 by the state government following a political storm in Tamil Nadu.
In the case related to Selvaraj, the second Additional District Court Judge, Tindivanam, P. Selva Muthukumari, Wednesday found six men guilty of murder and other offences.
