Maoist hunt gave first breakthrough

Kochi: The initial  breakthrough in the search  for the notorious criminal Aadu Antony was made by the police  squad formed for Maoist hunting.  The squad   traced Bindu, his first wife, whom he married in 1999, in the  Malampuzha valley and   she  told them that their son was  studying in  a school at  Ottappalam in Palakkad.

Though Aadu Antony had married several women, he has only one son whom he used to contact  through the landline  of the school and his house.  The police traced a number from which  calls were coming, but it belonged  to Antony’s  friend.  He told the police that Antony was living with his latest wife Bindu in Gopalapuram.

“He married Bindu by introducing himself as Selvaraj, a cloth seller  from Kannur.   Bindu’s brother  lives in Coimbatore  and Antony  met Bindu through him.   Bindu’s first husband had died of a heart attack and  she has two children from that marriage.  He went out  for robbery at night on the pretext of  collecting money  from various places,” said police. 

Bindu  told the police the  time of his arrival.  Another team  went to Bindu’s sister’s house in Coimbatore to keep a watch. “On Tuesday at 6 am, he called Bindu  from a land phone  and told her that  he would come at 8 am. As he landed,  he was  caught,” the police said.

He lived in different names like Antony, Sreenivasan, Sathisan, Rajesh, Mohanraj and  Selvaraj  and  advertised in newspapers seeking brides from various places. After his first wedding, he married   Soja from Kodakara, Pushpa from Changanassery, Shyla from Sultan Bathery  and Suja from Thiruvananthapuram.