New Delhi, April 28 -- The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the conviction and sentence of eleven persons who were booked for the murder of a young couple, in a 2003 caste-based honour-killing case, in Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore.

The Madras High Court had, in June 2022, convicted and sentenced 11 out of the 13 persons who the trial court had convicted.

Today, a bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Prashant Kumar Mishra upheld the decision of the Madras High Court and found no reason to interfere with the same.

"A crime is an act against the State. But a wicked and odious crime, as the one we have just dealt with, is the ugly reality of our deeply entrenched caste structure. Honour-killing, as these are called, must get a strong measure of ...