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February 16, Three AIADMK activists were sentensed to death and 25 others to seven years imprisionment by a sessions court in Salem in the Dharmapuri bus burning case for killing three students of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore during a protest against AIADMK leader Ms J. Jayalalithaa being convicted in a corruption case in 2000.

Three students of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore, Kokilavani, Hemalatha and Gayatri, were charred to death when the vehicle was fired by the accused.

Initially, the case was heard by a court in Krishnagiri, then the case was transferred to Salem by the Madras High court during the previous AIADMK regime. The first additional sessions judge D.Krishna Raja fined 24 convicts Rs. 13,000 each and ordered one to pay Rs. 15,000 in the sensational Dharmapuri bus burning case.

The first additional sessions judge D.Krishna Raja ordered that the three accused Nedunchezhiyan, Ravichandran, C.Muniappan be hanged to death in the Dharmapuri bus burning case. D.Krishna Raja said that the murder of the three girls by torching their vehicle was the rarest of the rare case. He said that the extreme punishment was justified, besides it should serve as a warning others.

The three students of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University at Coimbatore were charred to death and 18 others suffered burns in the bus burning incident. All the three accused were asked to pay Rs.59000 each in Dharmapuri vehicle torching case. Tight security arrangements were made in the court complex in view of the judgement.

DIG of crime branch, CID police, D.Rajendran said that the judgement in Dharmapuri bus burning case was a reward to the good work done by his team.

February 7, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi denied the AIADMK general secretary J.Jayalalithaa’s contention that the water awarded to Tamil Nadu by the Cauvery Water disputes Tribunal in its final verdict was less than what was allocated in the interim award. The Cauvery Tribunal, in its interim award, ordered that Karnataka should release 205 tmc of water to Tamil Nadu

In a statement, the chief minister said as per the interim award of the tribunal, Karnataka had to give 205 tmcft of water to Tamil Nadu of which nine tmcft should be apportioned to Puducherry. This means that Tamil Nadu has been allocated 199 tmcft of water in the interim award, the head of the government added.

The chief minister said, now the tribunal in its final verdict, had said that Karnataka should ensure 195 tmcft at Biligundulu. He said if the 25 tmcft of water to be received between Biligundulu and Mettur was added, Tamil Nadu would receive a total of 217 tmcft at Mettur and after giving nine tmcft to Puducherry, it would get 210 tmcft.

The head of the government asked how can the final verdict be described as lesser than the interim verdict, this being so.

Jayalalithaa had demanded that the verdict should be notified in the Union Gazette immediately. Chief minister M.Karunanidhi said that this showed Jayalalithaa’s contradictory stand on the issue.

Tamil Nadu chief minister said that the AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa had wrongly understood his words. He said that the final verdict of the tribunal had come as a consolation to him and did not say it made him happy.