Two get life for killing youth in drunken brawl in public view

Two persons were today sentenced to life imprisonment by a court for killing a 29-year old man by hitting him with stones in full public view at a traffic signal here in 2011, CCTV visuals of which had caused an outrage.
Principal District Judge N Seshasayee awarded life imprisonment to Ramachandran and Krishnan and two of their associates Ganesan and Murugan to six months imprisonment.
The prosecution case was that the four had accosted victim Santhoshkumar after a drunken brawl near the signal in Saibaba Colony locality on July 12, 2011 in broad daylight.
They knocked him down with their motorbike and hit him with big stones lying there, resulting in his instantaneous death even as people in the four-road junction remained mute spectators. The accused later fled the area.

The murder became sensational as it was recorded in CCTV at the signal and police managed to arrest all the culprits in a couple of days.
The Judge also ordered the main accused to pay a fine of Rs 50,000 each, failing which they would undergo imprisonment for another six months.
Ganesan and Murugan were slapped with a fine of Rs.2,000 each and in default undergo two months imprisonment.