Radha was a sweeper at Congress office

The Additional District Sessions Court at Manjeri on Tuesday found the two accused guilty of murdering Chirakkal Radha, 49, in the Congress block committee office at Nilambur.

Judge P.S. Sasikumar found B.K. Biju Nair, 37, and Kunnasseri Shamsuddin alias Baputty, 39, guilty of raping, robbing, and murdering Radha inside the Congress office and destroying the evidence. Although a large crowd had gathered at the court to witness the conviction, the judge postponed the verdict to Thursday. A sweeper at the Congress office, Radha was murdered on February 5 last year. According to the charge sheet, the accused killed Radha by strangling and kicking her. The body was then tied in a sack and dumped in a pond at Chulliyode, near Nilambur.

Even as the police started investigations in a missing case filed by Radha’s relatives, the body surfaced in the pond on February 9. The body was identified the next day. The police nabbed the accused within hours, and the case was investigated by a special police team led by Additional Director General of Police B. Sandhya.

As many as 108 of the 245 witnesses testified before the court. The post-mortem report indicated that Radha died of wounds inflicted on her genitals. Although there was no sexual intercourse, attack on the woman’s genitals brought rape charges to the case in accordance with the new rape laws.

Radha was a sweeper at Congress office

She died of wounds inflicted on genitals