Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Dattatray Khedekar said there was prima facie no incriminating material linking Paul to Maoist activities or a banned organisation

The attack, carried out in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district on May 25, 2013, wiped out almost the entire top leadership of the Congress in the state. Special Judge for NIA cases reserved his order on the quantum of punishment for September 16