Ranjith Sreenivas murder case | Mavelikara court awards death penalty to 15 convicts

All the 15 accused in the case, who were members of the now-banned extremist outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) and its political arm Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), were convicted by the court on January 20.

The sentence was pronounced by Mavelikkara additional district judge V G Sreedevi.

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 rare” crimes.

The prosecution said the accused men were found guilty of their involvement in the murder of Sreenivasan, who was the state secretary of the BJP OBC Morcha.