A court in Kerala has sentenced 14 members of the banned Islamist group Popular Front of India (PFI) to death for the murder of BJP leader Ranjith Sreenivasan. The verdict was delivered by Mavelikkara Additional District Judge V G Sreedevi after the prosecution argued for the maximum punishment, citing the defendants status as a trained killer squad and the brutal manner in which the victim was killed in front of his family. The court deemed the crime as one of the rarest of rare cases.