The Mavelikara Additional District Sessions Court-I on January 30 awarded the death penalty to 14 of the 15 convicts in the murder of the BJP’s Kerala leader Ranjith Sreenivas.
Sreenivas, who was a lawyer and the State secretary of the BJP’s front for Other Backward Classes (OBCs), was brutally hacked to death at his house at Vellakinar in Alappuzha municipality on the morning of December 19, 2021. He was murdered in front of his mother, wife, and daughter. Sreenivas’ family welcomed the verdict.
