Kerala BJP leader’s widow finds peace as killers get death. Weary village says ‘it’s a closed chapter’

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Last month, 14 men associated with the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) were sentenced to death for the 2021 killing of the advocate, also a BJP leader, marking the first time so many people were given capital punishment at once in Kerala...

Days after the order, issued by the Mavelikkara additional sessions court, Lisha, 45, told ThePrint that she had drawn great succour from the judgment...

According to the court, Sreenivasans murder was part of a series of revenge killings that started with the murder of a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker, Nandu R..

RSS worker Krishna, the Valayar native whose killing is believed to have started this cycle of murders, was allegedly hacked to death by SDPI members following a clash between the two groups in Cherthala...

Last month saw another conviction in a case of political killings in the state as a special court in Kozhikode, on 22 January, found 12 men including some local CPI(M) leaders guilty for the 2012 murder of T.P. Chandrasekharan...

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