Four more witnesses in the Madhu lynching case retracted their original statement during the ongoing trial at the Special Court for SC/ST (PoA) Act, Mannarkkad on Thursday.
Witnesses 32 (Manaf), 33 (Ranjith), 34 (Manikandan) and 35 (Anoop) turned hostile as they testified before special court judge K.M. Ratheesh Kumar on Thursday. So far, 20 witnesses have turned hostile in the case.
However, the trial continued to evoke more public interest with the court coming forward to retry Sunil Kumar, witness 29 who turned hostile. Sunil Kumar had originally testified in the chargesheet that he had seen the accused bringing Madhu and taking his video, shouting ‘thief, thief’. However, he retracted his testimony on direct examination in the court on Wednesday. The prosecution sought to produce the video footage of the incident. Sunil Kumar was also seen watching the incident in the video.
