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Two Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) workers, including a Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] campaigner successful the 2025 Payyanur civic polls, were sentenced to 20 years successful situation connected Tuesday (November 25, 2025) successful the 2012 lawsuit involving a weaponry onslaught connected a constabulary conveyance astatine Payyanur successful Kannur, Kerala.
Taliparamba Additional District Sessions Judge K.N. Prashanth awarded imprisonment of 20 years and a good of ₹2.5 lakh each to convicts V.K. Nishad and T.C.V. Nandakumar. They volition efficaciously service 10 years successful jail.
Co-accused A. Mithun and K.V. Kripesh were acquitted earlier aft the charges against them were recovered unsustainable.
The onslaught took spot connected August 1, 2012 during Statewide protests pursuing the apprehension of the past CPI(M) territory caput P. Jayarajan successful the Ariyil Shukoor execution case.
According to the prosecution, the constabulary squad – comprising Sub-Inspector K.P. Ramakrishnan, Additional SI K. Kuttiyambu, CPO Pramod, operator Nanukuttan and KAP officers Anoop and Jackson – was returning aft verifying a study that Youth Congress person R. Rupesh had been assaulted adjacent an auditorium erstwhile the accused, past SFI leaders, arrived connected 2 motorbikes and hurled a weaponry astatine their vehicle.
Nishad, the archetypal accused, is the LDF campaigner from the Vellur-Mottammal ward (46 ward) of Payyanur municipality successful the 2025 section assemblage elections successful Kerala. He is simply a DYFI territory committee subordinate and Payyanur artifact secretary.
Nandakumar from Vellur is the 2nd accused.
Both were convicted nether charges including effort to execution and offences related to handling explosives.
