Overview
- The Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Nedumangad delivered the guilty verdict on January 3, 2026.
- The case stems from the 1990 seizure of 61.5 grams of hashish from Australian citizen Andre Salvatore Cervelli at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport.
- Prosecutors said Raju conspired with a court official named Jose to alter material evidence stored in the magistrate’s court.
- Cervelli’s sessions court conviction was overturned by the Kerala High Court in 1991 after it accepted a defense claim about the size of the alleged concealing innerwear.
- Raju is a Janadhipathya Kerala Congress MLA in the LDF, and reports did not mention sentencing or next legal steps following the conviction.