Thursday, October 26, 2017

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Today's papers carry this story.

   "The Malaysian High Commission has published in all the Malayalam newspapers an 
     advertisement with the photograph of an unidentified woman who died after falling from a
     building in Subang Jaya at Selangor."

Background.

This is another story but there could be a connection once the identity of the dead woman is established through scientific examinations including the DNA test. So, what's the story? It goes
like this:-

  (a) Omana Edadan was an ophthalmologist at Payyannur. Her husband and children live there.
  
  (b) She made headlines on 11 Jul '96, when she was arrested for killing Muraleedharan, her lover,
        by injecting poison while they're in the retiring room of the Ooty Railway Station. He - a 
        married man - was killed because she felt that he was drifting away from her. The lover was
        a Payyannur-based contractor.

  (c) She'd then chopped the body into pieces with a surgeon's precision and stuffed the pieces into
        a suitcase to throw it in a river.

  (d) However, the driver of the taxi she'd hired to go to Kodaikanal, for the purpose, grew 
        suspicious and alerted the police which resulted in her arrest. 

  (e) She manged to get bail on 21 Jan '01 before the trial could begin and nobody has heard of
       her since 29 Jan '01.

Other Related Information.

 (a) There were rumours, then, that she'd escaped to Malaysia under a fake passport.
 (b) Her children have confirmed that she'd called them just once from that country in '09.
 (c) Her husband and children confirm resemblance of Omana to the dead woman's photograph.

Nothing can be assertively said till the connected tests are carried out.

My take.

I've always wondered as to how a person can lead a normal life after snuffing out an other's life. If love is based on jealousy and possessiveness, it will hardly survive and if love is gone, the right thing would be is to walk away, the immense pain notwithstanding!


Tailpiece.

If the tests confirm that it's Omana then it would be yet another case of truth being stranger than fiction.

PS.

The police has, since, confirmed that it wasn't Omana who'd died. She's Merlin Ruby(37), a native of Valiyathura in Thiruvananthapuram.




    

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