THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The police have filed the charge sheet in the Pothencode Sudheesh murder case. The charge sheet was filed in Attingal Judicial First Class Magistrate Court. There are 11 accused including Ottakam Rajesh, accused in several cases. The charge sheet said enmity between goonda teams led to the murder.
Sudheesh was brutally hacked to death by a gang on December 11 in 2021 at Kalloor in Pothencode. Sudheesh, who hid in the house after seeing the attackers, was brutally hacked by the mob that followed him. The accused left after severing his leg. The CCTV footages of the accused displaying the severed leg before the locals and escaping in vehicles had surfaced.
The police had obtained information that Ottakam Rajesh was behind the murder. However, Rajesh, who went into hiding after the incident, was caught days later. The police arrested all the 11 accused in the case two weeks later. A policeman had lost his life when the boat carrying a police team in search of Rajesh, capsized.