Kerala HC acquits 13 RSS staff in 2008 CPM employee homicide case

By PTI

KOCHI: The Kerala High Court has acquitted 13 RSS staff in a case referring to the killing of a CPI(M) activist in Thiruvananthapuram in 2008, saying the prosecution had miserably didn’t show the incriminating circumstances towards the accused.

A bench comprising Justices Okay Vinod Chandran and C Jayachandran, on Tuesday allowed the attraction filed by the RSS staff difficult a Sessions Court order convicting them.

The bench, in an order handed late on Tuesday, noticed that the political rivalry was a simmering cauldron of intrigue, spite and deceit, typically spewing out the venom of hatred, within the type of senseless bloodshed.

“The manner in which events were portrayed before Court, smacks of a deliberate attempt to tutor witness and collect evidence, to define a scripted story. The sad saga of political rivalry and mindless killing, as we have noticed in many cases, tears under the social fabric of the State,” it stated.

“The yearly remembrances, only stoke the fires of rivalry and do not wipe the tears of the bereaved or awaken the conscience of those who matter. Another life is lost and yet another prosecution fails, both lying on the wayside, grim reminders to the society of the futility of it all. We cannot but acquit the accused of the charges levelled against them; the prosecution having miserably failed to prove the Incriminating circumstances against the accused. There is absolutely no evidence worth its salt, and the prosecution failed to prove any corroborative circumstance, but for the political rivalry existing between two groups,” it added.

The courtroom famous that the get-away of the accused was fast and the witnesses exaggerated the identification and the small print of the get-away automobiles.

On December 16, 2016, the Additional Sessions courtroom in Thiruvananthapuram had sentenced 13 RSS activists to double life imprisonment in reference to the homicide of CPI(M) employee, V V Vishnu on April 1, 2008.

The decrease courtroom had discovered all of the 13 accused responsible of homicide of CPI(M) activist.