The Kozhikode Special Additional Sessions Court (Marad Cases) has acquitted all the accused in the Thamarassery forest office attack case citing the lack of any evidence and witnesses’ account against them. There were 34 accused in the case in which the majority were farmers from rural areas of Kozhikode.
The examination of 29 witnesses had been completed ahead of pronouncing the final verdict on Wednesday. Three of the key witnesses - Forest Range officer T.S. Saju, Beat Forest Officer Subrahmanyan, and Civil Police Officer Suresh - had turned hostile during the trial procedure.
The defence counsel argued that all those who were arraigned in the case had actually no role in the attack. The investigation team was accused of fabricating the case against the suspects who were all farmers whose lives were hit by the legal battle.
