Gangster Binu Pappachan, who was arrested recently during a police raid at his birthday party where he cut a cake in the presence of 100 other criminals, was acquitted in an attempt to murder case filed against him by the Vadapalani police in 2013.
The case was registered against him for attempting to murder his rival, Ramesh, alias Dammu Ramesh, 42.
Binu, 50, came in the public eye only last month after the police swooped down on his birthday party, where 100 other criminals had gathered. Though he managed to escape, he surrendered later. The police had placed him in the A+ category, denoting a gangster with five murders to his account and with more than five rowdies as associates.
Trial was on hold
The trial in the attempt to murder case was affected since he had been underground for a long time. After he was nabbed, the trial gained momentum in the VI additional city civil/sessions court.
The prosecution case was that, in 2013, Ramesh and his friends were consuming liquor at a bar in Vadapalani when Binu and his associates barged in and attacked Ramesh.
Revenge attack
The police said that Ramesh had just come out of bail after he was arrested for murdering Saravanan, one of Binu’s associates in 2011.
The prosecution said that Binu attacked Ramesh with the intention of murdering him.
At the end of the trial, VI additional sessions judge K. Dhanasekaran said that the prosecution failed to prove the charges against Binu and acquitted him, giving him the ‘benefit of doubt.’
