A lakshadweep court on Wednesday sentenced four persons, including Lakshadweep MP Mohammad Faisal, to 10 years in an attempt to murder case.
Advocates privy to the case say the district and sessions court in Kavaratti imposed a fine of one lakh and a 10-year jail term against the convicts in the murder case registered against them in 2009. did. It is alleged that during the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, MP Faisal and others attacked former Union minister P M Sayyed’s son-in-law Padanath Salih for political reasons.
