15 Men Linked To Banned Group PFI Get Death Penalty For BJP Leader's Murder

A Kerala court on Tuesday handed the death penalty to 15 men - associated with the now-banned Popular Front of India - convicted of the murder of Ranjith Srinivasan, who was a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological mentor of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The 15 men were found guilty last week. The court ruled that eight - identified by news agency ANI as Nizam, Ajmal, Anoop, Mohammed Aslam, Abdul Salam alias Salam Ponnad, Abdul Salam, Saffaruddin, and Manshad - had been directly involved in the killing of Ranjith Srinivasan