Kochi: The Kerala Excessive Court docket has ordered to offer police safety for the attorneys showing for the accused within the homicide case of BJP chief Ranjith Sreenivasan.
Nevertheless, the HC didn’t permit the petitioners’ plea to switch the trial to the Kottayam periods court docket.
After the accused sought time to search out attorneys, the court docket directed to defer the trial by one month. The trial was scheduled to start this month.
Justice A Ziyad Rahman pronounced the order after contemplating a petition filed by accused Nyzam, Ajmal and 13 others.
The HC has directed the Alappuzha district police chief to deploy adequate police power on the premises of the Mavelikara court docket in the course of the trial for the attorneys to contest the case with none concern.
Ranjith Sreenivasan was murdered allegedly by Common Entrance staff in Alappuzha on December 19, 2021. The accused had filed a petition stating that as Ranjith Sreenivasan was an advocate on the Alappuzha bar, the attorneys in Alappuzha weren’t cooperating to contest the case on their behalf. The case was then transferred to the Mavelikara extra periods court docket.
Nevertheless, the accused once more approached the court docket with a plea to switch the trial to the Kottayam periods court docket by claiming that even the attorneys on the Mavelikara court docket weren’t cooperating. In addition they contended that some attorneys have been prepared to seem on their behalf, however had expressed safety considerations.
However the mom of the slain Ranjith Sreenivasan opposed the change of court docket. The prosecution mentioned that if there have been safety points, it was potential to deploy the police power.
The court docket additionally identified that transferring the trial to Kottayam could be a problem for the witnesses, who’re natives of Alappuzha. As per the case, the homicide was a fallout of the political and non secular animosity between two outfits within the state. In such a state of affairs, the petition in search of to make sure safety for attorneys showing for the accused can’t be rejected, the court docket additional acknowledged.
