Following the Supreme Court’s dismissal of the bail application of S. Yuvaraj, who is the prime accused in the murder of Dalit youth V. Gokulraj, the Namakkal CB-CID team arrested him in Chennai on Wednesday evening.
The founder of Dheeran Chinnamalai Gounder Peravai, Yuvaraj, was on the run after the murder of Gokulraj on June 24, 2015. After his surrender before the CB-CID on October 11, 2015, he was lodged at Vellore Central Prison.
Charge sheet was served to all the 17 accused in the case on March 3, 2016. His bail application was dismissed thrice in Namakkal court, following which he moved the Madras High Court that granted him conditional bail on May 28. He was asked to stay in Tirunelveli and sign at the Tirunelveli Town police station twice a day. Later, the court asked him to sign at Flower Market police station in Chennai and he was staying at Kilpauk.
Recently, he released three audio clippings through social media in which he expressed opinion in DSP Vishnupriya’s suicide case and the demand for transferring the Gokulraj case to CBI.
Stating that Yuvaraj is involved in threatening the witnesses, the State government had recently filed a petition in the apex court to nullify the bail granted to Yuvaraj.
And, the court on Wednesday passed orders cancelling the bail of Yuvaraj. The CB-CID team arrested him at Kilpauk and took him to Namakkal. He is expected to be produced before the Principal District Judge S. Ramathilagam in the wee hours of Thursday and lodged at Vellore Central Prison.
