The story so far: On January 30, 2024, the Additional Sessions Court 1 of Alappuzha in Kerala convicted 15 persons to death for murdering a lawyer, who was also a Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) State leader.
The prosecution case was that all the accused, who belonged to one religion and were the office-bearers of the now-banned Popular Front of India (PFI) and the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), brutally attacked and killed Ranjith Sreenivasan, the 45-year-old lawyer, who was practising in the Alappuzha Bar, in retaliation to the killing of one of their leaders. The murder of Ranjith on December 19, 2021 was one of the series of retaliatory murders involving the BJP/RSS and PFI/SDPI activists in the coastal district of Alappuzha in Kerala.
