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Death penalty for 14 convicts in Ranjith Sreenivas murder case

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.

The police escort 15 members of the Popular Front of India (PFI) after they were awarded death sentence by a sessions court in Alappuzha on Tuesday in the 2021 murder case of Bharatiya Janata Party’s OBC leader Ranjith Sreenivasan.
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