A particular NIA court docket in Kochi on Wednesday discovered six individuals responsible whereas acquitted 5 others after the second part trial within the 2010 case during which a Malayalam professor’s palm was chopped off by now outlawed outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) members.

The sentencing will happen on Thursday afternoon.

Special NIA court docket decide Anil Okay Bhaskar discovered them responsible of tried homicide, conspiracy and varied different offences beneath the Indian Penal Code (IPC) within the second part of the trial within the case.

The six accused who had been discovered responsible had been recognized as Sajal, Nasser, Najeeb, Noushad, Moideenkunju and Ayub whereas these acquitted had been Shafeek, Aziz Odakkali, Muhammad Rafi, Subaid and Manzoor.

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In the primary part, 31 individuals had confronted trial within the case out of which 13 had been convicted and the remaining acquitted.

Ten of these convicted had been handed jail sentences of eight years every.

On July 4, 2010, TJ Joseph, a professor of Malayalam of Newman College in Thodupuzha, was attacked by PFI activists who chopped off his proper palm and stabbed his leg. The assault came about whereas he was returning residence along with his household after attending a Sunday mass at a church in Muvattupuzha in Ernakulam district.