{"id":55532,"date":"2017-09-28T15:12:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T19:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=55532"},"modified":"2017-09-28T15:21:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T19:21:32","slug":"lawyers-to-lodge-appeal-against-high-court-sentence-on-behalf-of-seven-convicted-in-vithya-sivaloganathan-rape-and-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=55532","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers to Lodge Appeal Against High Court Sentence on Behalf of Seven Convicted in Vithya Sivaloganathan Rape and Murder Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lawyers appearing for the convicts in the Vithya Sivaloganathan rape and murder said they would file an appeal at the Appeals Court within 14 days. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lawyers insist their clients \u2013 who were sentenced to death by the Jaffna High Court yesterday \u2013 were not guilty of the rape and murder of Vithya. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Eighteen year-old Vithya Sivaloganathan was waylaid on her way to school on May 13, 2015 and brutally gang raped and murdered. <\/p>\n<p>Nine suspects including Mahalingam Shashikumar &#8211;  \u2018Swiss Kumar\u2019 were arrested in the immediate aftermath of the incident. <\/p>\n<p>A trial-at-bar at the Jaffna High Court found 7 of the 9 suspects guilty yesterday (27) and handed them the death sentence for he rape and murder of Vithya Sivaloganathan. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Asian Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton55532\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D55532&amp;text=Lawyers%20to%20Lodge%20Appeal%20Against%20High%20Court%20Sentence%20on%20Behalf%20of%20Seven%20Convicted%20in%20Vithya%20Sivaloganathan%20Rape...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers appearing for the convicts in the Vithya Sivaloganathan rape and murder said they would file an appeal at the Appeals Court within 14 days. The lawyers insist their clients \u2013 who were sentenced to death by the Jaffna High Court yesterday \u2013 were not guilty of the rape and murder of Vithya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55533,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55532\/revisions\/55533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}