Fifteen persons with links to the now-banned outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) have been sentenced to death by a Kerala court for the murder of BJP leader Ranjith Sreenivasan. Sreenivasan was a BJP OBC wing leader when he was murdered in 2021 in Kerala's Alappuzha.
The sentence was pronounced by Mavelikkara Additional District Judge V G Sreedevi. The court had already ruled that all 15 of the accused were guilty of the crime.
All accused, except one, had arrived in the court for the sentencing.
The prosecution had sought the maximum sentence for the convicts, saying that they were a "trained killer squad" and the cruel and diabolical manner in which the victim was killed in front of his mother, infant, and wife brings it within the ambit of the "rarest of the rarest" of crimes.
(To be updated)
