39 Years Later, Guilty Stricken Malappuram Native Confesses To Killing Unknown Man
Malappuram, Kerala: On Friday, July 4, Muhammadali, a native of Malappuram in Kerala, walked into a police station in Vengara and confessed a crime he claims he committed 39 years ago as a teenager. He said he killed a man he did not even know the name, news agency PTI reported, citing sources.
Haunted by guilt for the past four decades, Muhammadali was living with his secret, which he could no longer bear. The crime took place in 1986 when he was just 14 years of age. He had been working on the property of a man named Devassya in the quiet village of Koodaranji, which is under Thiruvambady police station limits in Kozhikode district back then.
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In the mentioned time frame, police found the only surviving record is a short news report dated December 5, 1986. I. The report mentions the news of the body of a young man found in a small stream behind Mission Hospital in Koodaranji. Muhammadali is now in police custody, and they have now filed a murder case against him.
Muhammadali explained to the police that one day, when a man tried to attack him, he kicked the harasser, and he fell into a nearby stream. Got panic, the 14-year-old Muhammadali fled the scene. After two days, Muhammedali claims, he came back to see what happened and found the lifeless body of the man he kicked in the water.
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The nervous teenager stayed silent, fearing the consequences, Muhammedali said to the police. At that time, when the police found the dead body in the stream, they treated the death as natural. Locals had said that the man was known to have epilepsy, and no one came forward to identify the body.
Though the case quickly faded with no visible leads, Muhammadali, who is now in his 50s, guilt haunted him for all these years. He claimed that the burden of guilt became too heavy to carry at this point of time, especially after he lost his son during an accident. During the accident, his older son lost his life, while his younger son sustained a serious injury, striking him consciousness and realizing that he must come clear.
After the tragedy, he claims, he could not sleep well, and eventually decided to confess the crime. He reached along with the police to the crime scene and showed them the spot where the body had once laid. The police are not examining the old files and newspaper reports to find any corroborating evidence and find the victim’s identity.
