K. Lakshmana

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rdf:langString K. Lakshmana

rdf:langString K. Lakshmana

rdf:langString Former police officer

rdf:langString K. Lakshmana is a Kerala Cadre Indian Police Service officer who retired as State Police Chief of Kerala Police in rank of Inspector General of Police. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by a CBI Special Court forty years later, in the case relating to the encounter killing of Arikkad Varghese in the Thirunelli forest in Wayanad on 18 February 1970 Delivering the judgment, CBI Special court judge S Vijay Kumar said the first accused in the case, late CRPF constable P Ramachandran Nair had committed the act of murder on the command of Lakshmana, the second accused, who was the then DYSP. The judge convicted Lakshmana of the offence under Section 302 read with Section 34 of IPC Sangeetha Lakshmana, prominent advocate who practices at the High Court of Kerala, is his daughter.