The Madras High Court, on Wednesday (February 25, 2026), dismissed a State appeal preferred in 2019 against the 2018 acquittal of nine individuals who were suspected to be the members of forest brigand Veerappan’s gang which abducted Kannada actor Rajkumar on July 30, 2000 and held him hostage for 108 days.
A Division Bench of Justices P. Velmurugan and M. Jothiraman confirmed the order of acquittal passed by the third Additional district and sessions court at Gobichettipalayam in Erode district on September 25, 2018 and held that it did not find any reason to interfere with the well-reasoned trial court verdict.
