What a country
What a judiciary
What a stage we are in

If I were Kin of those who were killed in this massacre, then after this verdict I would have done following things. 1) I would have Killed judge who acquitted those 17 ppl. 2) Then I would have tried to kill those 17 culprits.... This is sad but it seems this is the only way to get justice in India....!
Maa chu**ne gayi democracy...!

LAW IS A DARK ROOM. IF WE CANNOT DELIVER JUSTICE TO THIS DAY LIGHT MURDER HOW WE ARE GOING TO ENFORCE LAW IN OUR COUNTRY?

darling yeh hai india

This is Dance of Demacray
India is called as Independent country. But still money and power is controlling our investigation and Judiciary.
No end, until all indians / tamilans realize....

A totally unnecessary episode. Those who turned hostile have probably been “taken care of” with suitable “inducements”. Wonder if anybody took care of the families that lost their bread winners. I think not. :(

We are no better than the Moghuls, Chinese and USSR...

Only that we conduct a mock of democracy called Elections...

India will never Change... The GDP and all the Shining is nothing but farce...

Jai Hind

A daring article by Ram! Wish this article should be taken to the notice of Mk and Alagiri.
'Much water has flown down the dirty cooum'! Wow. What a punch! MK & Alagiri should hang themselves. Those who follows the murky political drama in TN during last 2 years understand the shrewdness of the comments. Keep it up ram!

Expected judgement

This article is a remembrance for the family who lost their bread winners. And it is news to others. Who bother about past incidences? People need only money. Which they are all paid during election campaign. And elect the same scoundrels.

Shame on our judiciary system !! these wintessess should be taken to task and punished, because they have obstructed justice ..... well, hope these people also have family and kids, and they do not have to go through a similar ........... shame, shame, and more shame on our judiciary, whom we unfortunately call 'your honour' .....

Even CBI is been politicised.....i pity the 3 employess who were killed / murdered and their families. Alagiri should have been punished as per the First visual statement.

Nothing to be surprised about, this is indeed the state of the Indian judiciary and law enforcement. They are just hand puppets of whomever is ruling at the time. It is really a shame and one has but to laugh about all the talk India being the next superpower blah, blah, blah. What is a democratic country when the lives and rights of ordinary citizens are not assured? As long as Indians continue to sycophants of politicians and parties, and dont remember that it is the common man who has the power to make or break these political thugs this will sadly be and is a common occurence in this once great country

So well said. And nicely rounded up with the hope that the families of the three victims may some day smile. But I wonder if that will ever happen. As long as TN politics continues to be run by one family for all and all for one family, it really is impossible for families of the common man to smile.
Wonder if something will ever happen for things to change in such a culturally and socially rich state.

whatelse we can expected from in our country. we pity with the families who lost their near and dear ones

It is strange that a Police officer can turn hostile. Is the Police DG proposing any action against him?

Guilty should be punsished..whoever taken laws in their hands...

Nobody killed the three murdered men.
While a lot of politics goes around, hapless common lives come cheap. Worse we have accepted it as a way of life. Just as prostitutes somewhere down the line accept their job and make mends with life.
Life moves on.
Stalin will become the new CM maybe and there might be plenty of smiles all around, while the dried tears of the family of the men who died would only curse their fate. For being at the wrong place at the wrong time!

What evidence the court wants to punish the guilty and everything was shown in all TV for the particular day. Both maran and MK family joined together but 3 lives will come back?This is yet another loop hole in our judicial system. The developed countries like USA,UK even the circustances evidance are considered against crime and criminals are punished whereas in our country even with direct evidence court could not do anything.What a shame on our judical system?God only can save our country and poor innocent people.

Witnesses turning hostile seems to be standard fare in criminal trials involving VVIPs. Prime witnesses, including the widow of the murdered, recently turned hostile in the Sankararaman murder trial of Kanchi Sankaracharya.

As per Karunanidhi, those three people comitted suicide, This acquital news is not published by DINAMALAR, AND DINAKARAN, see their websites, otherwise DINAMALAR, involves every small, small incidents to public, regarding this case in DINAMALAR no news so far.

The people killed the 3 staff members of Dinakaran by voting such goons to power and then remaining timid to such goondagiri.Shame on Tamilians.

Well written article, Arun. I think we've had enough of free rides, and it's time we sent these 'smart politicians' packing... Can we have a framework in our constitution that binds them on a host of aspects, and forces them to serve the office with dignity and grace?

Karunanidhi & Maran families for their personal benefit have buried Justice in the deep waters of bay of Bengal. Their Money power and muscle power (goondaism) is turnint Tamilnadu into a place fit for Thugs and murderers.Its a shame and a direct challenge to the millions of Tamils. Where is Justice ? The tears of the 3 families who had suffered due to these two families....
....................... Karunanidhi and Maran you have to answer.... People will see the consequences ????

Bull Shit Guys

Witnesses turning hostile seems to be standard fare in criminal trials involving VVIPs. Prime witnesses, including the widow of the murdered, recently turned hostile in the Sankararaman murder trial of Kanchi Sankaracharya.

How much money the judge received?

What can make you sadder? One sees helplessly as the institutions of the state are systematically subverted. Three people die a gruesome death as they are hapless ones caught in political crossfire. Is this a wild west country?
Unfortunately this issue would not find the kind of media support which was generated in cases like Priyadarshini Mattoo, Nitish Katara and Jessica Lal.

We are a great democratoc country, aren't we ????? This is nothing but fascism in all forms....ridiculous!!! Where is the freedom of press??? Where is any freedom???

If you live in Tamilnadu, and anywhere close to Madurai, you better keep your mouth shut-It may irk the boss-Alagiri.No judge, not even CHO has dared to speak against the strong man.When he opes his mouth, you better shut yours

Very sad that those supposed to be the custodians of justice, have strangulated the deliverance of its ends.
It appears all have bowed down before the powerful perpetrators of ghastly crime.
The police may not have strongly pursued the case. Presenting untenable evidence intentionally, empowering unprovenness. May be the prosecution is not intrested or got biased or pressurised.
The higher courts may intervene if murderers are to be brought to face justice.
Otherwise we may wait for the action by the Highest Court!

This in one among karunandhi's case.If god is there the same manner his beloved peoles also shouldlose the life.But he has to be alive to to see that.Innocent peoples curse will not allow him to die peacefully.

For their family problem in the politics they murdered three employees. Today what they published came true that MK Stalin is going to take over the state politics. Kalanidhi Maran is a perfect business man and Karunanidhi family members are perfect politicians.

Family of those two engineers, they had very good expectation of their children's future. But because Karunanidhi's family problem, those two engineer family is now on the road.

These kind of incident will rise the question that the third pillar (judicial department) of our Indian government policy is having power or not.

These kind of incident will hinder the unity of India and its democracy. This is the right time, for the government to feel that one and make some appropriate action to product our democracy.

In India, all the law makers are law breakers. So what can be done by the people? They can only cast their vote once in 5 years., that too 50%. These kind of politicians will win those election by the help of money.

Every politician has their own TV channel and Newspaper (simply media) in their hands, so these kind of news will not reach the public.

Where is democracy going and where is India going? Its a big question in front of the people. Surely these kind of politics will be the root cause for the unwanted protest and liberation.

Today the way lawlessness prevails in Tamil Nadu the day will not be far off when they will ask for a separate state and it will be divided into two for Alagiri and Stalin...dithrashtra of this age...is playing for his sons....

This is nothing; wait till Tamil Nadu will be divided in to 2 States; South will be ruled by Alagiri and rest by Stalin. The Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu then can gloat truly 'people's rule is in Tamil land and Sangam age has come. The elder Statesman then can rest in peace.

Is this called Democracy?????????god save TN....

For Sun network, they are more concerned about their family develpoment and about the lives of three & their family. The very same Maran brothers broad casted that Azhagiri & his goons were behid this, now they went behid them by leaving those people. They are more punishable than that goons.They will comprosime anything!!! for making their family shining.

Excellent Judgment., Keep going India., Keep going. No external agency can destroy India, because they are having so many agency inside India.

Hail democracy.

That is what Tamil politics is. Unless they learn to be Indians, this will go on!!!

Mu Ka's shameless Legacy
In any country, a political party like DMK has people from various fields on the payroll. Mu Ka, a leader in his own right (have to give the devil its due), supported the Tamil Eelam (as differentiated from the cause of Lankan Tamils), perfected the divide and rule using caste (the Law College violence in Chennai is a good example) and has provided to be a brilliant Fund Manager. By bringing SUN TV back into the family fold, the NAV of Mu ka Inc is worth about USD 5 Billion (You could check the market cap of Sun TV & enquire on the un listed companies that get a cut on all big government projects).
If we, 'self respecting' Tamils, live of his palms and vote for his murderous and totally corrupt regime, we all should hang our heads in shame.
Over 3 decades back, a young student was slaughtered because he had the guts to check the CM's credentials. The boy's parents were coerced into not recognizing the body !! A macabre, criminal but brilliant twist. The case was thrown out. Today, the judiciary let down the people of the state with a hollow verdict.
Mu Ka, your sycophants could fudge the history books but you & your family will go down in history as a bunch of murderous hooligans.
Unfortunately, you are lucky...Jaya is as bad as you are....
Vazhaga Tamizhagam
I CONGRATULATE ARUN RAM AND TOI for some courageous reporting. Thank you Sir.

Well we should be careful here before jumping into conclusion that Judiciary is wrong. It is the political system which has paralizied the whole country. And when it comes to TamilNadu then it is even worse. Who can challenge DMK's masters. We do talk lot about Raj's MNS , Shivsena but actually they are there because TamilNadu people supported such politicians and country did nothing than. SO now they are role model for all such new family of Raj Thakerys. But its democracy even after this Tamilnadu people will vote for these criminals and bring them back to power. So I believe it is the shame for TamilNadu people and their society that what bad image they are creating of great land of TamilNadu in front of whole world.

Sir, In fact, no person has killed so many persons who were murdered. If we have all the files of the police departments and CBI opened about the murders that took place throughout India, we would see that so many people were murdered but the police closed the cases as they could not get hold of the murderer. Similarly, so many accuseds went scot free after trials in the Court. If all the files relating to murder cases of the Courts are opened, we would see that the conviction rate is very nominal and most of the people go scot free. Then there are cases where the police officers indulge in fake encounters and custodial deaths. The general answer as to who killed the people murdered in fake encounters or custodial death is that no police officer killed them. Most of the police officers responsible for the killings also go scot free. One of the reasons for this is that no body wants to be a witness for fear of the actual killer involved in the murder because the killer happens to be a big politician, a dreaded killer or a police officer.

What is the need of such type of judiciary. Which cann't punish culprits.
I don't blame witness . As witness fear for their life. Our judiciary needs to be more scientific & needs reform. But our politicians are not interested As they want their crimes to get unpunished

India needs goons as it's ministers and that was exactly why UPA had him in it's Cabinet.

and STILL we call ourselves the biggest democracy.Spunkless public which brings such b****rds to power.All the culperets ( judge,17 accused and the hostile witnesses)should be shot in public including the people behind this carnage.

Don't they have to live in Stalin Raj? Only 3 were killed. This time 17.

This is a direct result of Money and power against innocent and vulnerable.

Saluting your courage to write-up this article. Wondering whether common man will ever get justice in our country?

why is everybody keeping silent. ndtv, times, cnn ibn, hindu..they did a good job in manu sharma case. time for the media to act and get these sons of satan behind bars

Maybe the judge of angel eye was closing

Witnesses turning hostile seems to be standard fare in criminal trials involving VVIPs. Prime witnesses, including the widow of the murdered, recently turned hostile in the Sankararaman murder trial of Kanchi Sankaracharya.

SSShhhhh!!!!!
Don't complain against this family who can change the results of recently concluded elections and as of now they are super stars in their own way.
Owners of TV channels,newspapers,film productons ,donations to the BPL's of TN .
I would blame the people who vote for these "Sons of the Soil"

Lot of people are now afraid of Police and court or dont want to get into unnecessary trouble, this shows people not living united or as a community they get support from others and they are not socially responsible, Human life has become cheaper by day and money is all that runs the show without any principles.

What a sad day in the history of Tamilnadu? What does court expect? Video of accused lighting the match? Cannot they examine the evidence and find out who actually did this? It happened when Jayalalitha got arrested before 15 years. The sad irony is that 3 agirculture girl students were burned to death when Jaya got arrested. Immediately after the incident, Maran brothers announced 15 laks to the family of those three victims. The talk in the town is they might have given more money to these families and needless to day MK son's team would have threatend them to keep their moth shut. Democracy - Do you really call this as democracy? Still people vote for these kind of people. What can we say?

PLEASE GIVE THE COUNTRY BACK TO BRITISH. WE NEED FREEDOM FROM LOCAL POLITICIANS. GANDHI, YOU DID A GREAT MISTAKE OF GETTING FREEDOM. SORRY.

everything in india can be bought. alagiri has proved this. madurai is his kingdom and he is the king. nobody dares to oppose him. a person who does not have any oratory skills rides piggyback on his father.

it is a shame on democracy and the judiciary that they had to pass such judgements either under duress or for money.

God bless the victims and may he give them courage to pass through this. these politicians of tamil nadu are only fit to travel in their scorpios and excersing their power over hapless public.

History seems to repeat it self again, these incidents have become quite normal. Common man is now watching helplessly at these incidents. This proves "Truth Can Be Adjusted". If politics is for crooks then we have best of the breed in our politics.

It is the Democracy what had killed those 3. And unfortunately our judiciary, which does not even know the real meaning of Justice could not find way to punish the Justice. It is a universal truth applicable to India, that any political party comes to the power with the name of secularism and equality, in turn ensures the basics of humanity is killed. Now a cabinet Minister Alagiri, who can't even converse with average human for 30 mins in any subjects except how to kill the people or run corruption. But it is all Democracy, made by the people, maintained by the people for the massacre of the people.

This is not at all fair on the part of Indian Legal system.But people of TN were aware that this is what will happen at the end of the case.
The main accused in this deadly massacre is now a Cabinet Minister and the goon by name Attack Pandi, is heading Madurai District Agriculture Development Board.This is what India is all about.This is the reason for India having n number of criminals.

This definiteyly could have been avoided.

Now that Telengana is becoming a reality, if only we had some foresight to split TN into 2 states one each with Chennai & Madurai as Capital with its own CM. May be we should do that ASAP before next unfortunate event.

u know wt Tamilians continue to vote them

In the record, we are the largest democracy in the world. But in real sense, we are still the princely states ruled by the dynastic politicians. Their rule is that: the strong always dominates the weak. And the poor will have to spend their momentary lives like the sheep in the slaughter house. Nobody killed three men who were murdered by our weak system would have been better

Shame on Karunanidhi. As the executive head of state he bears complete responsibility. The 'icing on the cake' has been the fact that his elder son's name is involved in the sordid affair. The bottomline - we deserve the leaders we elect.

The Dravidian parties are well known for suppressing justice since the days of Annamalai University in 1972 when a father had been compelled to confess against his own son. But then even eminent leader like late Kamaraj could not do anything to bring justice and nowthe same congressmen are hobnobbing with Dravidian parties for the sake of power . What a shame and ugly politics?

Do you think the family members of the person who lost their life really felt bad about this judgement? I don't think so. Please check their bank accounts and you will see at least 25 lakhs deposited to it. People who work in dinakaran office will be DMK supporters who are basically canibals. They will even kill their own children for the sake of money and eat the flesh in public! That is how these guys genes are coded with venom since EVR period.

What is wrong with Indian Judicial System. Rather it is a common occurence that from delhi riots to gujrat riots to this unfortunate incidence, judges and lawyers make judiciary as a hog wash. No body holds culprits accountabe.

India is one of the top corrupt democracies and judiciaries in the world.

success has many fathers but failure has none.when this is the mantra of indian judiciary who are themselves are compromised then to expect a fair&balanced verdict is asking for too much.as the indian saying goes,"YETHA PRAJA THATHA RAJA".so when the constituents accept sari&dhoti and rice before voting the election itself is compromised so the emotional outburst of indians in the comments section sounds comical&diabolical all at once.unfortunately democracy in india will be successful when employment approaches atleast 95%.then the voters automatically know whom to elect,till then they elect to have their free ROTI&KAPDA. jai HIND.VANDE MATARAM.

What a shame for justice? Please send this article and comments to NRI PM (Always on foreign tour, so NRI), Sonia, Rubber stamp President, MK, MK first/second/third wife familie, Well educated Maran Brothers, Will our country change?

Great verdict. Indeed. How else could you describe this when video footages, photos and other direct evidences could be so ignored. Just goes to show that you dont need any evidence to be acquitted. So people, go ahead and kill the SOBs. You would be acquitted even if millions watched it.

Touchy Article. I wish to end this episode like a Tamil movie let the Hero come and finish the conspirators.

Very good article with powerful language. Police should be made as independent of the political system.

Any laws passed and regulations put in place, at the end of the day, when enforcement dept is corrupted, no use.

"...the second witness who is the deputy news editor of 'Dinakaran' turned hostile."

Is Cooum as putrid as the guy mentioned above?

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