By IANS
Chennai : The Madras High Court Thursday reserved orders on appeals by 28 convicts against a lower court verdict that awarded death penalty to three of them and life term for the rest in what is known as the Dharmapuri bus burning case of 2000.
Three girl students of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University were burnt to death when the bus they were travelling in was set ablaze in Dharmapuri district in west Tamil Nadu by AIADMK workers after their leader J. Jayalalitha was sentenced in a corruption case in February 2000.
The case was tried in a lower court in Salem, which in February this year found the 28 accused guilty and sentenced them.
The accused, including the three AIADMK functionaries sentenced to death, Nedunchezhiyan, Ravindran and Muniappan, had appealed to the high court against the Salem court verdict.
A division bench of Justice D. Murugesan and Justice V. Periya Karruppayya reserved orders on their appeal Thursday after hearing arguments from both sides.