Uma Thomas incident: HC issues interim stay on proceedings against third accused

The Kerala High Court connected Tuesday issued an interim enactment for a period connected further proceedings against 1 of those who had been arraigned arsenic accused successful the effort to perpetrate culpable homicide lawsuit that had been registered aft Uma Thomas, MLA, suffered superior injuries aft falling down from a signifier astatine the Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium present successful December 2024.

The lawsuit was being heard by the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Ernakulam.

Ms. Thomas was attending an lawsuit held astatine the stadium erstwhile the incidental took place, and the Palarivattom constabulary had registered a case. The prosecution alleged that the petitioner (Janeesh P.S., the 3rd accused) — the idiosyncratic who was tasked with the work of lawsuit absorption — had entrusted the signifier enactment to different person, who was the 5th accused successful the case. The petitioner further contended that helium did not organise the event, nor did helium contented instructions to enactment up a signifier from which Ms. Thomas fell down, and sought an bid quashing the archetypal accusation study against him.

Admitting the plea, a Bench of Justice C.S. Dias issued announcement to the parties concerned.