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The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday (May 27, 2026) informed the Madras High Court that it intends to file a curative petition before the Supreme Court against the acquittal of engineering graduate from the 2017 sexual assault and murder of a seven-year-old girl at Mugalivakkam in Chennai.
A Division Bench of Justices G.R. Swaminathan and V. Lakshminarayanan recorded the submission made on behalf of the government and closed a writ petition filed by Madurai-based advocate S. Venkatesh who had sought a direction to the government to file a curative petition.
According to the prosecution, the victim child had been subjected to aggravated sexual assault by her neighbour in an apartment complex before being murdered. He had hid the body in his house for a day before taking it out in a travel bag and dumping it under a bridge near Anakaputhur.
The next day, he went back to the spot and burnt the body. Further, he enacted a drama by alerting the police control room after posing as a passerby who happened to chance upon the body. Further, a few days before the trial was to begin in December 2017, the youngster, then on bail, had murdered his mother and fled to Mumbai.
The police nabbed him after a long search and brought him back to Chennai to face trial in both the cases. A Chengalpattu court sentenced him to death and it was confirmed by the Madras High Court too in July 2018. However, on further appeal, the Supreme Court acquitted him from all charges on October 8, 2025. A review petition filed by the State was dismissed by the top court on November 26, 2025.
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