Anjaly murder case: Chargesheet being filed 7 years after
Central Forensic Science Laboratory in Hyderabad had failed to prove that bones were of Anjaly.
KOTTAYAM: The Changanassery police will soon file the chargesheet in the case relating to the murder of Anjaly, 31, by her husband at Vagamon in 2009. Pradeep Kumar of Prabha Nilayam, near Changanassery, had killed Anjaly, a paraplegic, by throwing her into a ravine at Karikkadu top after giving her sleeping pills on October 27, 2009. The Central Forensic Science Laboratory in Hyderabad, which examined her bones, had failed to prove that they were of Anjaly.
Hence, the chargesheet will be filed on the basis of circumstantial and other evidence, said Changanassery CI Binu Varghese. The bones of Anjaly were retrieved after search by the police and the locals in the ravine for at least four times. They were first sent to the FSL, Thiruvananthapuram, on September 13, 2013 and to the CFSL in May 2015. The first and second accused in the case, Pradeep Kumar and his mother Prabhavathy are out on bail.
The third accused, his father, Gopi committed suicide recently. In the meantime, the first accused married two other women on different occasions. It was when the police questioned him over a complaint filed by a woman that he admitted to the murder of Anjaly. The bones of Anjaly were retrieved after repeated search by the police and the locals in the ravine.