Eleven activists of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh were sentenced to double life imprisonment by a Kerala court on Monday for the murder a Communist Party of India (Marxist) worker in 2008. Of the remaining two convicted for killing Vishnu, a member of CPI(M) youth wing Democratic Youth Federation of India, one was given life imprisonment and the other three years’ imprisonment, ANI reported.

The Thiruvananthapuram Additional Sessions Court had on Friday found the 13 RSS activists guilty of the murder. The convicts had hacked the CPI(M) worker to death using swords, iron rods and other weapons in the Kerala capital’s Kaithamukku locality, the prosecution said. While there were 16 accused in the case, one died in 2008, one is absconding and another was acquitted by the court on Friday, according to The Indian Express.