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CPI (M) plea to Government

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: The State unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Monday urged the Government to appeal in the Supreme Court against the acquittal of 23 persons in the case in which six Dalits were murdered at Melavalavu village in Madurai district in 1997.

Shortly after meeting Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi in the Secretariat, State CPI (M) secretary N. Varadarajan said the party pleaded with the Government to prefer a special leave petition. The Chief Minister promised to seek legal opinion.

State secretariat member of the CPI (M) G. Ramakrishnan, who accompanied Mr. Varadarajan, said the High Court, even while upholding the trial court's order in the case, had observed that the then Government had not appealed against the acquittal. Of the 40 accused in the case, 17 were sentenced to life imprisonment and the remaining 23 acquitted. The convicts had moved the Supreme Court recently.

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