Former Kerala BJP chief K. Surendran acquitted in 2016 case over alleged threat to police officer

The Kannur Judicial First Class Magistrate Court has acquitted erstwhile BJP Kerala president K. Surendran successful a lawsuit related to alleged threatening a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) done a Facebook post. The tribunal delivered the verdict successful the lawsuit dating backmost to 2016.

Mr. Surendran was accused of issuing threats against past Kannur DySP P.P. Sadanandan done the Facebook station successful transportation with the probe successful the Fazal execution case. The station allegedly claimed that the constabulary were attempting to implicate RSS and BJP workers successful the lawsuit and was termed threatening successful quality by the complainant.

The lawsuit was registered by the Kannur Town constabulary pursuing a ailment filed by Mr. Sadanandan. The ailment besides cited a nationalist code made by Mr. Surendran successful Kannur successful which helium allegedly mentioned and threatened DySP Prince Abraham successful narration to the aforesaid investigation.

The constabulary had charged that the Facebook station and the code amounted to transgression intimidation and an effort to demoralise constabulary officers handling the execution lawsuit probe.

After examining the grounds and arguments, the tribunal recovered nary grounds to convict Mr. Surendran and acquitted him of each charges.