Ranjith Sreenivasan was a BJP leader from Kerala who was brutally murdered in 2021, have a look at his family, wife and story details
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In a landmark decision, fifteen Popular Front of India (PFI) activists were found guilty of involvement in the planned assassination of Ranjith Sreenivasan, an RSS activist, in December 2021.
Who is BJP Kerala leader Ranjith Sreenivasan murdered by PFI members, biography, age, family, wife and story details
Why a Kerala Court sentenced to death 14 PFI members for the murder of BJP leader & lawyer Ranjith Sreenivasan?
brutality of crime -series of blows, victim murdered in house in front of mother, wife & child.
lack of repentance of the accused,
no probability of reformation. pic.twitter.com/9DtlwvSRbq— Live Law (@LiveLawIndia) January 30, 2024
Mavelikkara Additional District Judge V. G. Sreedevi gave the death sentence and described the occurrence as “unusual political murder.” The attack’s brutality was underscored by the court decision, which said that the victim’s body was targeted in areas where even a single hit may have been fatal.
The macabre nature of the crime was further accentuated by the perpetrators denuding the lower part of the victim’s body, reflecting a disturbing element of perversity. The court noted that the meticulously planned assault, executed by 12 individuals in conspiracy with three others, was a pre-meditated act of violence.
The verdict made it clear that the victim, Ranjith Sreenivasan, the state secretary of the BJP OBC Morcha, had never provoked the accused. It was decided that the existence of mitigating factors, such as the accused’s age, was inadequate to offset the seriousness of the violation.
Since the verdict was pronounced, many people have been trying to find out more about Ranjith Sreenivasan. So, letโs find out everything about him:
Who was Ranjith Sreenivasan?
Ranjith Sreenivasan was a BJP leader from Kerala, India and a lawyer. He has been in the news because his tragic murder by 15 PFI activists recently culminated in their grim death sentence.
Lisha, wife of slain BJP leader, Adv. Ranjith Sreenivasan, recollected how she was threatened by three Muslim women after the murder and they asked Lisha to withdraw from the case and warned her to protect her daughters from falling into the hands of SDPI members.
Ranjith, 45, the BJP OBC Morcha state secretary, was hacked to death in front of his wife Lisha, mother and daughter Hridya in Alappuzha town on December 19, 2021.
He was the state secretary of the Bhartiya Janta Partyโs OBC Morcha.
On the morning of December 19, 2021, Ranjith Sreenivasan was murdered at home, purportedly in front of his wife, mother, and child. The event happened just a few hours after KS Shan, the head of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), was assassinated on the evening of December 18, 2021, by a group of people.
Those named Naisam, Ajmal, Anoop, Mohammed Aslam, Abdul Kalam alias Salam, Saffaruddin, Manshad, Jaseeb Raja, Navas, Sameer, Nazir, Zakir Hussain, Shaji Poovathungal, and Shernas Ashraf were among the accused, who were members of the now-outlawed Popular Front of India (PFI) and its political wing, the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI).
Following their conviction for directly participating Ranjith Sreenivasan’s murder, the first eight accused were found guilty under Sections 302 (murder), 149 (unlawful assembly), 449 (trespassing into a house to commit an offense punishable by death), 506 (criminal intimidation), and 341 (wrongful restraint) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
In perhaps the first of its kind in post independence judicial history, Kerala court awards death sentence to 15 PFI-SDPI men for the murder of Advocate Ranjith Sreenivasan in 2021. pic.twitter.com/qZyCMWhaHL
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