In 2015, young Gokulraj, a promising engineering student, was abducted from the famous Arthanariswara temple in Thiruchengode, in Tamil Nadu’s Namakkal district, where he had been talking with a female friend, and subsequently cruelly murdered: his tongue was severed and he was decapitated.
The Gokulraj Murder Case: The story of a conviction under the SC-ST Act
On March 8, a Madurai special court followed up on the conviction of 10 men for the murder of a young Dalit student by sentencing all of them to life imprisonment. Invoking Ambedkar, the presiding judge said that ‘if caste has to be broken, intercaste marriage is the only solution’, writes V. Geetha