KOCHI: The Kerala Excessive Court docket on Wednesday put aside the life imprisonment awarded to B Okay Biju, former member of then Energy Minister Aryadan Muhammed’s private employees, and his confederate Okay Shamsudheen within the Radha homicide case. The Manjeri Further Classes Court docket had pronounced the sentence within the case which pertains to the homicide of housekeeper Radha on the the Congress block committee workplace in Aryadan’s house constituency of Nilambur.
The bench, whereas permitting the petition of the 2 convicts, noticed that the investigation hinged on quite a lot of possibilities, however a profitable prosecution will rely upon such possibilities being raised to the extent of a reputable model which, past any affordable doubt drives house the guilt of the accused. The ingenuity of the investigator lies in unearthing the proof that eludes the widespread man and never scripting a narrative and gathering proof to match the script. “The lingering doubts that pervade each facet of the proof persuade us to present the accused the advantage of doubt and acquit them of the costs levelled towards them,” held the court docket.
The court docket directed that they need to be launched from jail forthwith and likewise dismissed the enchantment filed by the state authorities searching for to award capital punishment to the accused. Radha was murdered on February 5, 2014. The homicide passed off inside the pc room of the social gathering workplace, after which the physique was stuffed inside a jute sack and brought away in a items automobile belonging to second accused Shamsudheen.
