Kerala Assembly ruckus trial to begin 11 years after incident
The trial of six former lawmakers accused in the 2015 Kerala Assembly ruckus will begin on November 3 before the Thiruvananthapuram Chief Judicial Magistrate Court. The case concerns alleged damage to Assembly property during an effort to stop the then Finance Minister K.M. Mani from presenting the Budget.
The trial in the Kerala Assembly ruckus case is scheduled to begin on November 3, 11 years after the incident. Proceedings will take place before the Thiruvananthapuram Chief Judicial Magistrate Court. The incident occurred on March 13, 2015, during the United Democratic Front government.
According to the police case, Opposition Left Democratic Front members attempted to prevent then Finance Minister K.M. Mani from presenting the Budget. A confrontation followed on the floor of the House.
The police allege that Opposition members entered the Speaker’s podium and damaged chairs, computers, microphones and electronic panels. The estimated damage was nearly ₹2.2 lakh. Former Ministers V.
Sivankutty, E.P. Jayarajan and K.T. Jaleel, and former MLAs K.
Ajith, K. Kunhammed and C.K. Sadasivan are among the accused.
The first phase of the trial will examine two witnesses. They include former Assembly secretary P.D. Sarangadharan and an engineer who copied digital video recorder footage of the proceedings.
The case underwent a prolonged legal dispute over a proposed withdrawal. Petitions by the then LDF government were rejected by the trial court and Kerala High Court, while the Supreme Court dismissed the State’s appeal in 2021. A subsequent Crime Branch investigation reportedly produced no new information.
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