New Delhi, May 20 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced nine persons to life imprisonment in a 2013 murder case of a doctor in Tamil Nadu, reversing the Madras high court's 2024 order that had acquitted them due to a lack of evidence. While directing seven of the convicts to surrender in two weeks, the court suspended the sentence for two elderly people, one of whom is a woman, until their plea for pardon is decided by the state executive. While doing so, the bench of justices MM Sundresh and SC Sharma said, "We would like to make it clear that these observations are not intended to condone their actions, but are made only for the limited purpose of appreciating the human factors underlying their conduct." The trial court had sentenced ...