A Kerala court on Tuesday sentenced to death 15 persons associated with the now-banned Islamist outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) in connection with the murder of BJP OBC wing leader Ranjith Sreenivasan in Alappuzha in December 2021.
The sentence was pronounced by Mavelikkara Additional District judge V G Sreedevi.
The prosecution had sought the maximum sentence for the convicts, saying that they were a "trained killer squad," and the cruel and diabolical manner in which the victim was killed in front of his mother, wife and infant child brings it within the ambit of "rarest of rare" crimes.