While the Mavelikara Additional District and Sessions Court-I has pronounced its verdict in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ranjith Sreenivas murder case, the trial in the killing of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) State secretary K.S. Shan, considered the trigger for the murder of Ranjith, has not yet begun.
Shan, 38, was attacked by assailants at Kuppezham Junction at Mannancherry in Alappuzha around 7.30 p.m. on December 18, 2021. He succumbed to his injuries around 11.30 p.m. The SDPI leader was heading home on his motorcycle when a car rear-ended the two-wheeler. A group of persons came out of the car and attacked him with iron rods and other weapons. In less than 12 hours after the murder of the SDPI leader, a gang hacked to death Ranjith, 40, BJP OBC Morcha State secretary, in his house at Vellakinar in Alappuzha municipality around 6.30 a.m. on December 19, 2021, when he was about to go for a morning walk.
The trigger for the murder of Shan was the killing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker Nandukrishna, 22, by SDPI men at Vayalar in Alappuzha on February 24, 2021.
