KOZHIKODE: The Kerala State Police Chief (DGP) has issued urgent directives to the District Police Chiefs (SPs) of Kannur and Kozhikode Rural to conduct a comprehensive, time-bound investigation into the mysterious disappearance of Sijo Scaria, a native of Vilangad in Kozhikode. The top cop’s intervention comes after Sijo’s immediate family members, including his grieving mother, filed formal petitions before Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the DGP seeking to uncover the dark truth behind his missing status. The long-forgotten case recently resurfaced in the public domain after an unidentified human corpse was discovered hidden inside a church cemetery vault in Vanianpara, Kannur. The intricate details of Sijo Scaria’s disappearance were first broken and highlighted by the regional news channel Twentyfour.
According to investigative archives, the case dates back to 2014 when Sijo Scaria, following a heated verbal altercation with his father, packed his belongings and moved along with his wife and young son to his maternal in-laws’ residence located in Vanianpara, Karikkottakari, in the Kannur district. In 2020, when Sijo’s paternal relatives from Vilangad proactively tried to reconnect and enquired about his whereabouts, Sijo’s in-laws reportedly updated them with a highly suspicious timeline. They claimed that nearly three years prior (around 2017), Sijo had left the house following a minor domestic dispute, stating he was heading to a local retail shop, and had never returned. Although a formal missing person registry was processed by the local police at that time, initial search operations completely hit a brick wall, yielding no definitive clues.
The investigation took a dramatic and dark turn following a chilling discovery at the Unni Eesho Church parish cemetery in Vanianpara. Workers opening a concrete tomb vault stumbled upon an unidentified decomposing body tightly wrapped inside a traditional floor mat. Given that the grim discovery took place in Vanianpara—the exact locality where Sijo was last seen alive—and that forensic experts estimated the burial timeline perfectly aligned with the period Sijo went missing, his paternal family expressed deep apprehensions of foul play. Suspecting a hidden homicide, the family has demanded a forensic DNA profiling of the recovered remains. Acknowledging the gravity of the interstate migrant-belt mystery, the DGP has commanded the twin-district SPs to deploy specialized homicide squads to unravel the truth.
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കോഴിക്കോട് വിലങ്ങാട് സ്വദേശി സിജോ സ്കറിയയുടെ ദുരൂഹമായ തിരോധാനത്തെക്കുറിച്ച് അന്വേഷിക്കാൻ കണ്ണൂർ, കോഴിക്കോട് റൂറൽ എസ്പിമാർക്ക് സംസ്ഥാന പൊലീസ് മേധാവി ഉത്തരവ് നൽകി. 2014-ൽ ഭാര്യവീട്ടിലേക്ക് താമസം മാറിയ സിജോയെ 2017 മുതൽ കാണാതായിരുന്നുവെങ്കിലും ബന്ധുക്കൾ വിവരം അറിയുന്നത് 2020-ലാണ്. അടുത്തിടെ കണ്ണൂർ വാണിയപ്പാറയിലെ ഉണ്ണിഈശോ പള്ളി സെമിത്തേരിയിലെ കല്ലറയിൽ പായയിൽ പൊതിഞ്ഞ നിലയിൽ അജ്ഞാത മൃതദേഹം കണ്ടെത്തിയതോടെ, അത് സിജോയുടേതാകാമെന്ന ബന്ധുക്കളുടെ കടുത്ത സംശയത്തെ തുടർന്നാണ് മുഖ്യമന്ത്രിയും ഡിജിപിയും അന്വേഷണത്തിന് ഉത്തരവിട്ടത്.
(With inputs from MN)
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