Taliparamba fraud case: Cops to seek custody of lawyer, husband

KANNUR: The Taliparamba police will on Tuesday seek  the  custody of K.V. Shylaja,  lawyer,  and Krishna Kumar, her husband,  who were remanded in judicial custody for 14 days by the  Payyannur judicial first class magistrate court  last week.  They had been charged with financial misappropriation to acquire the wealth of a deceased man.    Taliparamba DySP  K.V.  Venugopalan  told DC  that the couple would be  interrogated  to find out the missing links in the  case. They had allegedly conned a huge amount of money in the name of the late Balakrishnan of Taliparamba.

Shylaja’s sister Janaki, 72,  was arrested on August 1 and released on bail.  She had wrongly claimed to be the wife of Balakrishnan  and received his family pension from 2011 onward. Shylaja  is suspected to be the brain behind  the fraud. Janaki had availed of a family pension of Rs 20,000 per month from 2011 and received  Rs 66,000 from one bank. Property worth Rs 19.5 lakh was transferred in  her name along with six acres of land. The couple had surrendered before the DySP office on Friday.