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The Thiruvananthapuram District and Sessions Court has agreed to perceive an entreaty filed by disqualified MLA and erstwhile Transport Minister Antony Raju successful an grounds tampering case.
The tribunal volition perceive the arguments successful Mr. Raju’s petition connected February 2.
The Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Nedumangad, had earlier this period recovered the erstwhile Left Democratic Front legislator blameworthy of forging and planting worldly grounds successful the two-decades-old lawsuit and sentenced him to 3 years’ imprisonment and a good of ₹10,000.
The condemnation was pronounced successful the lawsuit successful which Mr. Raju was accused of tampering with an Australian national’s undergarment that had been seized arsenic worldly grounds successful a narcotics case.
Mr. Raju, the 2nd accused, had filed an entreaty seeking that his condemnation beryllium overturned.
The archetypal accused, K.S. Jose, a erstwhile tribunal clerk, excessively had been sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment.
The tribunal had, however, granted Mr. Raju bail until the disposal of his entreaty arsenic the condemnation was little than 7 years.
