The Thiruvananthapuram Chief Judicial Magistrate Court granted conditional bail to the four Youth Congress acitivists who were arrested on the charge of forging voter ID cards to rig the recent organisational polls on Thursday.
Rejecting a police application seeking custody of the accused, the court came down heavily on the investigation team for failing to adhere to criminal procedure norms while arresting the accused.
The accused persons, Feni Ninan, 25; Binil Binu, 21; Abhinand Vikram, 29; and Vikas Krishnan, 42, of Pathanamthitta, had been granted interim bail on Wednesday.
