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Along with Jolly, the chargesheet named M.S. Mathew, aka Shaji, 44, and Prajikumar, 44, who allegedly helped Jolly in getting the cyanide and a former Communist Party of India (Marxist) functionary K. Manoj, 41, who helped to forge documents.\n\nJolly's mother-in-law Annamma Thomas; her father-in-law Tom Thomas, a retired Education Department officer; Sily, wife of Shaju Zacharias, Jolly\u2019s second husband; Sily's two-year-old daughter Alphine; and Annamma\u2019s brother-in-law Mathew Manjadiyil were the other victims.\n\nCrime Branch Superintendent of Police K.G. Simon said the accused were charged under Sections 302 (murder), 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 465 (forgery), 467 (forgery of valuable security and will), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document), 110 (punishment for abetment if person abetted does act with different intention from that of abettor), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender), and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 6 (2) [penalty for unlawful importation] of the Poison Act.\n\nThe extraordinary case had 242 witnesses, 322 documents, and 22 material objects, Mr. Simon said.\n\nNow, the chargesheet would be submitted to the Kozhikode Sessions Court. 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