When he was pronounced guilty, Chinnasamy pleaded for lighter sentence to which the judge responded asking why he thought he deserved leniency after planning such a gruesome murder of a daughter he had loved so much. She told me I was better off dead than be married to Sankar.
My father was totally against this marriage”, Kausalya told the judge, who was taken through the shocking trail of evidence that her father Chinnasamy had Windproof lighter left behind while he plotted the kill with his spouse Annalakshmi and brother-in-law Pandi Durai, and the hired killers.“My mother threatened me repeatedly that I will be killed, that she will kill me.