Eleven years after the murder of a Bharatiya Janata Party worker, a Kerala court on Friday, 26 July sentenced five CPI(M) workers for the crime.
KV Surendran, a 62-year-old goldsmith, was hacked to death at his house near Thalassery in Kannur district, after a group of people attacked him with sharp weapons on 7 March, 2008.
According to reports, Surendran was bedridden at the time of the incident as he was suffering from kidney ailments. Though he was taken to hospital after the incident, Surendran succumbed to his injuries. A total of seven people were accused in the crime. But Thalassery additional sessions court judge PN Vinod discharged two of the accused for lack of evidence and sentenced five others.