By Express News Service
KOZHIKODE: Six years of rigorous imprisonment and fantastic was slapped on controversial entrepreneur Saritha S Nair, who was discovered responsible in a dishonest case associated to organising of photo voltaic panels. The Judicial Magistrate Court right here introduced its verdict on Tuesday within the presence of Saritha, who’s the second accused within the case, the primary accused being her former accomplice Biju Radhakrishnan. B Manimon, of Kodungalloor, who cast paperwork, is the third accused.
The verdict was introduced primarily based on a case filed by Kozhikode native Abdul Majeed of St Vincent Colony accusing Saritha of dishonest him to the tune of Rs 42.60 lakh after promising to put in photo voltaic panels at his residence and workplace. Majeed additionally had claimed that other than putting in photo voltaic panels, she additionally had supplied franchisees in Kozhikode, Kannur, Malappuram and Wayanad and likewise promised franchisees of windmill farm firms. An enormous quantity was additionally taken by the accused by extending these affords to him, he added in his assertion.
The case bought extended as Saritha failed to look earlier than the courtroom for greater than 4 instances. The case once more bought delayed after the Justice of the Peace bought transferred in May 2019 and later when the brand new Justice of the Peace assumed cost, the trial was restarted. But but once more she failed to look when the courtroom was to pronounce its verdict in February 2021. After all these years of courtroom proceedings, the Justice of the Peace introduced the decision on Tuesday.
The case filed by Majeed was registered at Kozhikode Kasaba police station. Warrants exist already within the title of Saritha in Alappuzha, Pathanamthitta and Kozhikode districts within the photo voltaic rip-off case. The police division drew flak a number of instances for delaying Saritha’s arrest even after courts issued a number of warrants in opposition to her. Based on the job fraud case charged on her, the police had arrested her from Thiruvananthapuram final week.
As the courtroom came upon {that a} legal conspiracy additionally befell in reference to the case, it didn’t take into account the submission of Saritha that she was harmless and that Biju Radhakrishnan cheated her.