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Chennai, June 22 Commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment for five convicts, the Madras High Court on Monday set free Chinnasamy, the main convict, who had also been sentenced to death in the Udumalpet Shankar honour killing case.A Division Bench comprising Justice M. Sathyanarayanan and Justice M. Nirmal Kumar also dismissed the appeal by the state police against the acquittal of three persons by a lower court.The Bench ordered the five convicts sentenced for life to undergo a jail term of not less than 25 years.In 2016, V. Shankar, who had married C. Kausalya, was killed by a gang in Udumalpet in Tamil Nadu. The gang also injured Kausalya in the attack.It was alleged the parents of Kausalya Chinnasamy, Annalakshmi were against the marriage.P. Pandidurai, the uncle of Kausalya at the behest of Chinnasamy and Annalakshmi had hired a gang to kill Shankar.The gang killed Shankar in broad daylight in a public place and Kausalya too got injured in the attack as she tried to save her husband.The Principal District and Sessions Court in Tiruppur had convicted and sentenced to death six accused persons Chinnasamy, P. Jagadeesan, P. Selvakumar, M. Manikandan, M. Mathan alias Michael and P. Kalaithamilvaanan.The court also sentenced two other accused, K. Dhanraj for life and Manikandan to a five year jail term, while acquitting Annalakshmi, Pandidurai and Prasanna.The convicts had filed an appeal against their sentence in the Madras High Court while the police filed an appeal against the acquittal of three persons.( With inputs from IANS )

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