A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Wednesday set aside the verdict of the Thrissur Additional Sessions Court – IV convicting seven Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers and and sentencing them to life imprisonment in the murder of Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] worker Shihab at Pavaratty in 2015.
The Bench comprising Justice P.B. Sureshkumar and Justice C.S. Sudha while allowing the appeals filed by the RSS activists observed that the Bench was constrained to acquit the accused not because it found that they are not the real culprits, but due to the flawed investigation and lack of evidence. The court added that it did not find fault with the investigating officer in proceeding with the investigation in the case on the premise that the activists of the organisation RSS must have committed the crime.
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