Kolhapur, Nov. 29 -- The District and Sessions Court here today acquitted Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana (SSS) national president and former MP Raju Shetty and his 80 workers of the serious charges registered during the sugarcane agitation in Shiroli tehsil of this district in the year 2011.
After the hearing, Sessions Judge Kashyap acquitted all 80 SSS workers and their leader Shetty of charges framed under sections 302 and 307 of Indian Penal Code, nearly 15 years after registration of the offences.
SSS leader Shetty had staged an agitation for fair and remunerative price (FRP) for sugarcane at Shiroli on Pune-Bangalore national highway of this district in 2011, when a police constable died in the stampede that took place as the police ...