Eighty year old K Lakshmana, a former IG of the Kerala Police has been found guilty in the murder of Arikkad Varghese in Feb '70. Varghese, a naxalite, was a legend amongst the tribals and disadvantaged people in north Kerala during the height of the naxalite movement in Kerala during the late '60s and the early '70s.
Varghese's death was passed off as an encounter killing for almost three decades until Ramachandran Nair, one of the police constables who'd been a part of the team that killed Varghese, made the dramatic confession that Varghese was actually shot to death by him, at the behest of Lakshmana, who was then a DySP. The incident had taken place in the Tirunelly forest in Wayanad.
Ramachandran Nair, ridden by guilt had spilled the beans seeking his share of punishment. But fate had different plans for him, in that, he passed away in 2006. The CBI which had probed the case, consequent to Ramachandran Nair's confessions, had cracked the case with the help of the evidence provided by Haneefa who was the other constable at the seat of the crime.
A mystery to be solved many, many years after the act of crime can only be attributed to life coming back in full circle to put the facts in perspective and punish the guilty!
I suppose this is the cosmic truth!!
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