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Kerala parents pour acid on son’s face

Murders within the family have become routine fare in Kerala news. Close on the heels of Cadell murdering his parents, we have a case from Thiruvanthapuram where parents confessed to brutally hacking their son and pouring acid on him.

The incident which has been reported from Parasaala, Thiruvananthapuram deals with the discovery of the body of a young 25-year-old man. Santhosh, as he was later identified, was found hacked to death inside his house. He was the son of Sreedharan and Saraswathi. Sreedharan is an autorickshaw driver. The couple have one other son called Sajin.

The death was discovered by neighbours who suspected something amiss when Santhosh’s parents left the house and had been missing for some time. They found Santhosh’s body on the floor and they immediately informed the police. The case is under the investigation of the Neyyattinkara Police.

For parents to murder their own child, there should have been strong reasons. Initial investigation revealed that Santhosh was not on good terms with his parents or his immediate family.

He was known to be a drug addict, being under the influence of ganja, alcohol and other drugs. His parents were at their wits end. It had been six months since Santhosh had been released from jail after serving term in a drug peddling case. His case history had been described by Neyyatinkara DSP B Harikumar .

On June 1, the day had begun in the household with Santhosh fighting with his parents over money. He is alleged to have asked his parents for money to indulge in his habit of alcohol and drugs. Prior to this, his parents had tried to curb their son’s addiction and so secretly had been administering medicine into his food.

A side effect of this medication was that it caused Santhosh to vomit on consumption of food. His mother’s ploy was caught and it made Santhosh angrier still. Some reports say the couple had deliberately tried to poison the boy tired by his behaviour.

Under influence of the drugs and alcohol, Santhosh would often assault his parents and his younger brother. He had even threatened to harm other members of the family, including children. He had recently also tried to harm his mother using a coconut scraper. So tired of his repeated demands for money and daily bickering, Santhosh’s parents decided to end it once and for all.

According to the report, the parents in their confession have detailed how they went about the crime. On June 1,Santhosh had already taken money from the house and argued with his parents over giving him money to buy drugs.

In the night he came back in an inebriated state. The following morning his parents took formic acid, commonly used to treat rubber sheets, and poured it on his face and then using a crowbar hit him reportedly until he died.

Sajin was asked to stay in his bedroom when this happened. In the morning, while his parents went away, Sajin stayed behind. A neighbour came to inquire of Sreedharan’s services and that is when the discovery was made.

Sajin at that time feigned ignorance of what had happened in the house and had escaped by the time police came. Two days after the murder the family surrendered. Police had pressed into service forensic experts and sniffer dogs to reach the culprits.

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