Kochi: Investigation team files charge sheet in Dheeraj murder case. Idukki DySP Emmanuel Paul filed the charge sheet in the District Sessions Court. The indictment alleges that political animosity was the cause of the killings. The accused have also been charged with destroying evidence as the key evidence in the case, the knife, could not be found. The charge sheet was filed on the 81st day after the incident. The list of defendants includes eight KSU-Youth Congress activists. Six of them were directly involved in the murder. Jerin Jojo, Jitin Uppumakkal, Tony Thekkilakkadan, Nitin Lucas, Soimon Sunny, Jasin Joy, and Alan Baby are the two to eight accused. There are a total of 143 witnesses in the case.
Nikhil Paili, the first accused and Youth Congress Vazhathoppu constituency president, first stabbed Abhijit and then Dheeraj with a knife kept in his pocket. The cause of death was Dheeraj’s left chest injury and rupture of coronary arteries. The accused have been charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code with conspiracy, murder, attempted murder, assault, destruction of evidence, concealment of weapons, and prevention of Scheduled Caste Violence. The 1600-page charge sheet was filed in six volumes.
