NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court granted bail to Anusanthi, second accused sentenced to life, in the Attingal double murder case. The court granted bail after considering her demand of losing her eyesight. The trial court can decide her bail conditions.
The apex court said they intervened after taking into account her health condition. Her demand was to cancel the sentence and grant her bail in the case of losing the sight of one eye. However, her plea to cancel the sentence has not been settled. The court clarified that Anusanthi has been granted bail until this plea is adjudicated.
Meantime, the Kerala government had the other day urged the Supreme Court to dismiss her bail plea. In the affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, the government said Anusanthi had a definite role in the conspiracy related to the crime and the allegation that she lost her eyesight in police brutality as fake. Standing Counsel Nishe Rajan Shonker submitted the affidavit for the state.
The double murder in Attingal committed in April 2014 had shaken the state. Anusanthi's four-year-old daughter and mother-in-law were killed. The prosecution case is that Anusanthi and her lover Nino Mathew, who were employees of Technopark in Kazhakoottam, conspired and committed the heinous crime. The Kerala High Court had reduced the death sentence awarded to Nino Mathew by the trial court to life imprisonment. It had also directed that he should serve 25 years in prison without parole. The high court had upheld Anusanthi's double life sentence.