Attapadi lynching case: Court asks for magisterial reports

PALAKKAD: The Mannarkkad Special Court for SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act on Thursday ordered to produce of the two magisterial reports on the Attapadi tribal youth Madhu lynching case and decided to try the executive magistrate and judicial magistrate who had prepared these reports.
Then executive magistrate and Ottapalam sub-collector Geromic George (now Thiruvananthapuram district collector) and 1st judicial magistrate of Mannarkkad M Ramesh were directed by the court to produce their magisterial reports before November 7 (Monday).The date of their trial will be fixed after getting the reports, the court said.
The prosecution had appealed to the court to get these very important magisterial reports and try the executive and judicial magistrates. These pleas were allowed by the court. The prosecution said these reports were not included in the case file.
Madhu from Chindakki hamlet near Mukkali was captured from a cave in the forest and beaten up by a mob alleging that he had stolen food items from a shop on February 22, 2018.