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Six accused in spirit case convicted

Staff Reporter

KOLLAM: Kottarakara Additional Sessions Court Judge S. Shanthakumari on Wednesday convicted six persons who were accused in a spirit case registered by the Kadakkal police in August 1999.

All the six were convicted to seven years imprisonment and a fine of Rs.1 lakh each. The first accused in the case is Kuppana Thampi, who also figured as the first accused in the Kuppana hooch tragedy case in 2003 in which seven persons had lost their lives. In that case Thampi was sentenced to life imprisonment and is at present serving the sentence.

The others convicted on Wednesday in the Kadakkal spirit case were Sreekantan Nair, Rajesh, Sathyan, Jayaraj and Sheeja. All of them were Thampi's employees. In 1999, Thampi had the licence to operate a toddy shop. The charge against him was that he sold spirit mixed toddy from the shop.

The Kadakkal police raided a premises rented by Thampi and seized 3,050 litres of spirit while it was being filled from a tanker into cans. All the five persons, other than Thampi, who were convicted on Wednesday were arrested from the premises at the time of the raid.

Thampi was arrested, later. Accused number four in the case, East Fort Nixon is still at large.

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