Ancheri Baby Political Murder: Kerala High Court Acquits Former Minister Mani And Two Other Accused
Live LawThe Kerala High Court on Friday allowed the discharge application moved by former minister M.M Mani and two others where they sought to quash the proceedings pending against them in the scandalous Ancheri Baby murder case of 1982. Justice Sunil Thomas acquitted the trio setting aside the decision of the trial court dismissing their plea to drop the charges against them in the case finding that the witnesses were not credible. ".if the materials gathered by the investigating agency and relied on by them, contradict each of the other materials, so as to affect the substratum of the case, though materials indicate offence but, as a whole, when both are let in contradict itself thereby strike at the very root of the prosecution case, there is no reason as to why the prosecution should be permitted to proceed with such a trial, which would end in failure." The prosecution case was that the political murder was a consequence of the conspiracy plotted by rivals Mani, Jayachandran with their associates.
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