NRI death: Body parts to be taken to CFSL

Move to ascertain identity of murdered NRI

October 22, 2014 11:20 am | Updated May 23, 2016 03:53 pm IST - Kozhikode:

The Crime Branch-Crime Investigation Department (CB-CID) has decided to send the body parts so far believed to be of the murdered Non-Resident Indian businessman Abdul Kareem from Thamarassery for further DNA profiling at the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) in Hyderabad.

This was after the Forensic Science Laboratory located at the Police Headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram gave a negative report about the identity of the murdered man.

He was allegedly killed by his sons, who smothered him with a pillow after administering him with chloroform at his house in Wayanad on September 28 last year.

After killing him, they chopped off his hands and legs and dumped his body in a river in Karnataka. The body parts of the victim were recovered by Crime Branch sleuths from a canal in Chamarajanagar district. The decomposed torso of Kareem was found in a plastic bag in a canal. The bag was found 67 km away from where the accused had dumped it.

Accused

Midhilaj, 24, and Firdouse, 22, sons of Abdul Kareem, have been named as the first and the second accused in the case.

Abdul Kareem’s wife Mymoona, 43, her brother Mohammed Faiz, of Karippiyil, and Rafeek, 21, Ambayathodu, Thamarassery, are the other accused. Faiz, owner of Hotel Al-taste, South Koduvally, helped Midhilaj and Firdouse do away with the body.

The decision to test further for identity comes when the Crime Branch was planning to submit a charge sheet in the case before the Thamarassery Judicial First Class Magistrate Court here.

Additional Director General of Police (Crimes) S. Ananthakrishnan told The Hindu on Tuesday that the DNA test was redone at Thiruvananthapuram to rule out any possibility of wrong identification of the victim. It was necessary to prove the identity of the victim in the court. “Normally, the forensic laboratories provide the same results. But this is a sensitive case,” he added.

Mr. Ananthakrishnan also added that the Crime Branch officials would also carry out a recheck in the river for recovering the body of Kareem. The body parts now recovered could be of someone else, he said.

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