The Madras High Court overturned the conviction and death sentences of seven individuals and life sentences of two others related to the 2013 murder of neurosurgeon S.D. Subbiah. Justices M.S. Ramesh and Sunder Mohan acquitted P. Ponnusamy, his wife Mary Pushpam, their sons P. Basil and P. Boris, and others including B. William, H. Yesurajan, J. James Sathish Kumar, E. Murugan, and S. Selva Prakash. The court ordered their immediate release and refund of any fines paid. Initially, a sessions court had sentenced them in August 2021, accusing them of hiring a gang to kill the neurosurgeon over a property dispute.