Sukumara Kurup

Sukumara Kurup is a most wanted-criminal in the Indian state of Kerala. He is accused in the murder of Chacko, a film representative, in the year 1984. Chacko was strangled to death and his body was burnt inside a car. Sukumara Kurup allegedly committed the crime to fake his own death and claim an insurance amount of INR 800,000($75,000)(1984 $rate was 10.74) by killing Chacko who bore a resemblance with him. Sukumara Kurup is supposed to have fled abroad after the incident, while two of his co-accused, driver Ponnappan and brother-in-law Bhaskar Pillai, were sentenced to a life-term imprisonment.[1] The Chacko murder case is one of the long-standing cases in the judicial history of Kerala.

The case again caught media attention during the mid-2000s when there were reports on Sukumara kurup look-alikes in various parts of India and Kerala.[2]

NH 47, a Malayalam language film based on Chacko murder was made in 1984 by Baby.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ R Gopakumar (Nov 13, 2010), Fugitive fails to turn up at son's wedding, retrieved May 27, 2012
  2. ↑ "Hunt for Sukumara Kurup hots up" (Press release). The Hindu. May 6, 2006. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
  3. ↑ "NH 47". www.malayalachalachithram.com. Retrieved 2015-11-01.
  4. ↑ "NH 47". malayalasangeetham.info. Retrieved 2015-11-01.


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