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Bus burning case: Three death convicts to submit
mercy plea
Chennai, Sep 22 A mercy petition
signed by the three convicts sentenced to death
in a bus burning case in Tamil Nadu is likely to
be submitted to President Pratibha Patil
Thursday by leaders of the AIADMK party, a party
source said Wednesday. Last month the Supreme
Court confirmed the death penalty awarded to
three AIADMK activists - C. Muniappan, Madhu
alias Ravindran and Nedu alias Nedunchezhian -
for causing the death of three women university
students by torching their bus near Dharampuri,
Tamil Nadu, in February 2000. Following the apex
court's decision, a local court in Vellore
Tuesday ordered Vellore jail official to carry
out the death sentence Oct 3. Leaders of the
AIADMK (former minister Jayakumar) met the three
convicts Wednesday in the jail and got their
signature on the mercy petition.
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The three
agriculture university girls were burnt alive
and several others sustained burns when the bus
they were traveling in was set on fire by AIADMK
activists protesting party chief J.
Jayalalithaa's conviction in Kodaikanal's
Pleasant Stay Hotel unauthorised construction
case. A Chennai court had in February 2000
convicted and sentenced Jayalalithaa and four
others to one-year jail term each for legalizing
the unauthorised construction of the seven-storeyed
Pleasant Stay Hotel at Kodaikanal when she was
the chief minister 1991-96.
