ALAPPUZHA: The
Alappuzha
district and sessions
court
judge A Badharudeen on Thursday acquitted all the five accused –– Latheesh B Chandran, P Sabu, Deepu Chellikandathil, Rajesh Rajan and Pramod Vadakkechira –– in the
P Krishna Pillai
memorial attacking case due to lack of evidence.
All of them were the activists of the CPM and were ousted from the party after the incident.
The attempt to burn down the memorial of Pillai, a founder of Communist movement in Kerala, was made on the morning of October 31, 2013. Pillai’s thatched house, where he died on August 14, 1948, due to snakebite while in hiding, was also gutted in the attack.
Though local police launched a probe, the state government later handed it over to crime branch (CB). While Latheesh is a former personal staff of VS Achuthanandan, P Sabu is the former secretary of CPM Kannarkattu local committee.
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