Overview
- Taliparamba’s Additional District and Sessions Court, which ruled Saturday, sentenced 10 CPI(M) workers for hurling a bomb at RSS-BJP workers in 2011.
- The judge ordered T. V. Binu to serve 25 years consecutively as the bomber, while nine co-accused received concurrent terms capped at 10 years.
- The court imposed a fine of Rs 2.6 lakh on each convict, and it acquitted two other accused for lack of evidence.
- The blast hit a vehicle near Thimiri College on November 27, 2011, injuring nine of about 30 RSS-BJP workers who were inside.
- Prosecutors tied the attack to a fight over starting an RSS branch, and the conviction will disqualify CPM panchayat member P. V. Baburaj from office in a district often marked by party clashes.