In 2006, a trial court convicted 14 CPM members and sentenced them to life in prison for the killings. However, in 2011, the Kerala high court affirmed the conviction of five men, acquitted eight others, and noted the death of one accused Dinesan.
A POCSO court in Kerala's Manjeri sentenced 29-year-old Unais, son of Hussain, to 87 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old minor girl
Journalist Saugata Bose stated, "We don't know if there was just one attacker or multiple. This wasn’t a theft. Besides, nothing has been stolen. This must have been an attack for some other reason."
On 3rd December, an NIA court sentenced 28 accused to life imprisonment in the Chandan Gupta murder case. Chandan was killed during a Tiranga Yatra in 2018 in Kasganj.
The accused were identified as Mohd Fayyaz Mohd Hashimuddin, Sayyad Sameer Sayyad Jimal, M Shyam Koteshwar Rao and Mohd Amam Mohd Akbar. All of them are residents of Hyderabad.