CHENNAI: The Chennai Principal Sessions Court has granted conditional bail to 12 accused, including key accused Aswathaman, in the Armstrong murder case.

Armstrong, who was the Tamil Nadu State President of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), was hacked to death near his residence last year. In connection with the case, 27 people, including notorious rowdy Nagendran and his son Aswathaman, were arrested. Recently, Nagendran died due to health complications while in custody.

Meanwhile, bail petitions filed by Aswathaman, Anjalai, Pradeep, and 11 others came up for hearing before Justice S Karthikeyan of the Principal Sessions Court, Chennai.

During the hearing, the petitioners’ side pointed out that even though the Madras High Court had ordered the transfer of the case to the CBI, the State

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