Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Thiruvananthapuram, R. Rekha has read out the charges in the 2015 Assembly ruckus case.
The accused in the case are E.P. Jayarajan, V. Sivankutty, C.K. Sadasivan, and K. Kunhammad, all Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] lawmakers; K. Ajith of the Communist Party of India (CPI); and K.T. Jaleel, an Left Democratic Front (LDF) Independent. The suspects were LDF legislators in the Opposition at the time of the alleged offence.
The prosecution case is that the accused had unleashed pandemonium in the Assembly to hinder the then Finance Minister K.M. Mani from presenting the Budget. The incident occurred on March 13, 2015. Mani's alleged involvement in a bar bribery case had provoked the Opposition protest.
