Lakshadweep NCP Member Of Parliament PP Mohammed Faizal Gets Ten-Year Jail Term In Attempt To Murder case

A court in Lakshadweep sentenced four people, including Lakshadweep MP Mohammed Faizal to 10 years jail in connection with an attempt to murder case.

Lawyers associated with the case said that the District and Sessions Court in Kavaratti also imposed a fine of Rs 100,000 each, on the convicts in the attempt to murder case registered against them in 2009.

According to the lawyers, the MP and others attacked Padanath Salih, son-in-law of former union minister P M Sayeed, when they had reached their neighbourhood for intervening in a political issue during the 2009 Lok Sabha polls.

Speaking to PTI, Faizal said it was a 'politically motivated' case and he would file an appeal in the higher court soon.

However, he is slated to be disqualified from the Lok Sabha as the period of sentence in the case is more than two years.

Faizal was one of the main organizers of the protests that had erupted against the new regulations announced by the Union Territory's Administrator, Praful Khoda Patel.

(With inputs from PTI)

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