The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition in Kerala has sought to politically weaponise the High Court order upholding the conviction of the 12 persons accused in the 2012 murder of CPI(M) dissident and Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) founder T.P. Chandrasekharan at Onchiyam in Kozhikode to put the Pinarayi Vijayan-led government and the ruling party on the defensive.
Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan said the High Court had reasserted the “complicity” of the CPI(M)‘s top leadership in the heinous political murder that shocked Kerala’s conscience.
For one, Mr. Satheesan said, the High Court had nullified the trial court’s acquittal of two CPI(M) apparatchiks charged in the crime.