The Kerala High Court on Wednesday suspended the sentence of 4 convicts in the Periya double murder case, including the former CPI MLA K. V. Kunhiraman. The Special CBI Court had found the former MLA K. V. Kunhiraman, K. Manikandan, Raghavan Velutholi, K. V. Bhaskaran guilty of offence under Section 225 of IPC and had sentenced them to 5 years …
Perusing the detailed analysis of the High Court, upon which it arrived at the conclusion that the investigation by the local police was not fair, the bench headed by Justice L. Nageswara Rao, ruled that the High Court was right in transferring the investigation to the Central probe agency, "to instill confidence in the minds of the writ petitioners and …