ALAPPUZHA: The family of Ranjith Sreenivas is fully satisfied with the court verdict. Ranjith's wife and mother informed about this while speaking to the media after hearing the death sentence of all the 15 accused.

‘We are satisfied with the maximum punishment awarded. Our loss is big but relieved on the court verdict. God has another verdict? There is nature’s justice. Even if we don't, you (the media) can. It will come behind. We are thankful to the team led by DySP Jayaraj, who investigated the matter honestly and brought the information to the court. Words cannot be limited to gratitude to the prosecutor.

This is the rarest of rare cases. No one had ever entered a house and done this. It cannot be termed as only a murder. This will not come under an ordinary murder. His face was disfigured in such a way that we were not even able to pay our last offering (vaikkari). Me, mother, brother and my children suffered that,’ said wife of Ranjith Sreenivas advocate Lisha.

The prosecution case is that Ranjith Sreenivas was hacked to death in front of his mother, wife and daughter at his house in Vellakinar in Alappuzha. Popular front activists Nizam of Alappuzha Komalapuram Ampanakulangara Machanad Colony, Mannancherry Ambalakadav Vadakkechirappuram Ajmal, Alappuzha West Munduwatakkal Anoop, Aryad South Avalukunn Irakat Muhammad Aslam, Mannancheri Njaravel Abdul Kalam (Salam), Atiwaram Darussabeen House Abdul Kalam, Alappuzha West Thaivelikakam Sarafudeen, Manna Ncheri Udumbithara Manshad, Jaseeb Raja in Alappuzha West Kadavatusheri Chira, Tayil Sameer in Komalapuram, Mannancheri North Aryad Kannarkad Naseer, Mannancheri Chavadi Zakir Hussain, Theke Veli Shaji (Poovathil Shaji) and Mullakkal Nuruddin Purayat Shernas Ashraf are the accused in the case. Advocate Prathap G Padikkal was the special public prosecutor.