Tirupur principal district and sessions judge Alamelu Natarajan also sentenced another accused to life term and another to five years imprisonment in the case. The judge acquitted three other accused, including Kausalyas mother.Kausalya, who was with him at the time of the incident, was critically injured and admitted to the ICU later. The attack was carried out at the behest of Kausalyas father. In a statement to the police, she blamed her family members for her husbands death and told the police that she had complained about the threat from her family earlier. The couple fell in love while studying at an engineering college in Palani and got married. However, the girls family tried to take her away even when she told the police that she had married the man of her own free will.