Thiruvananthapuram: The second additional sessions court here on Thursday awarded death sentence to the first accused and life imprisonment to the second accused in the Kolliyoor murder case. Judge Mini S. Das, who passed the verdict, termed the case as rarest of the rare.
The first accused is Kolus Binu alias Anilkumar, son of Susheelan of Vatta-ppara, and the second accused Chandran, son of Subramanyal of Oduk-kathur in Tamil Nadu.
The crime took place in the early hours of July 7, 2016 when a couple who were asleep in their house at Kolliyoor under the Kovalam police station limits were attacked by the two.
The husband, 45, a mason, was killed using a sledgehammer, and the wife, 42, who was badly injured, was raped. The accused then robbed the gold ornaments of the woman and also the golden crosses and the money from the almirah. Their two children, a daughter aged 16 and son,14, were sleeping in another room.
The police soon arrested the two accused. It was found that Anilkumar was the victim’s neighbour once and was physically attracted towards his wife. The police also recovered the ornaments which Anilkumar and his mother-in-law Ammakkutty sold to a jewellery in Tirunelveli. The police produced the CCTV visuals of the accused selling the ornaments at the shop.
The victim woman, who underwent treatment, has not regained her memory. As many as 76 witnesses were examined in the case.
The DNA examinations also found that the accused had committed rape. The bloodstains and DNA marks of the murdered person were found in the clothes of the accused and on the hammer used for the murder.
