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This is an archive article published on May 21, 2024
Kerala Congress chief acquitted in Jayarajan murder plot
The Kerala High Court order came on a plea moved by Sudhakaran and Rajeev against a 2016 decision of a Judicial First Class Magistrate (JFCM) court rejecting their prayer to discharge them from the case.
By: Express News Service
Kochi | Updated: May 22, 2024 01:40 AM IST
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KPCC Chief K Sudhakaran (X@SudhakaranINC)The Kerala High Court on Tuesday acquitted state Congress president K Sudhakaran in a case of alleged conspiracy to kill CPI(M) leader E P Jayarajan on a train in Andhra Pradesh in 1995.
Justice Ziyad Rahman said the conspiracy angle was already probed by the Andhra Pradesh Police and the respondents (Sudhakaran and others) were not even chargesheeted. Hence, the filing of a second FIR in Kerala cannot be justified, the court said.
In 1995, Jayarajan was shot at and injured on a train as it was passing through Chirala, Andhra Pradesh. A case of criminal conspiracy and attempt to murder was registered in Andhra Pradesh. Sudhakaran was named in the FIR but Andhra Police later dropped his name from the charge sheet.
A second FIR was registered in Kerala later after Jayarajan filed a complaint that the attack had followed a conspiracy hatched by Sudhakaran and another accused at the Government Guest House at Thycaud in the state capital.
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