Chenthamara found guilty in Sajitha murder case, quantum of sentence to be pronounced on Oct 16

PALAKKAD: The Palakkad Fourth Additional District Court has found Chenthamara guilty in the Pothundi Sajitha murder case. Charges of murder, destruction of evidence and assault have been proven. The quantum of sentence will be pronounced on October 16. Sajitha's daughters Athulya and Akhila were present in the court to hear the verdict. Chenthamara, the accused was brought to the court at 10.45 am.

Chenthamara alias Chenthamarakshan entered his neighbor Sajitha’s house in Boyans Colony at Pothundi in Nenmara and hacked her to death on August 31st in 2019. Chenthamara was very superstitious. An astrologer had told him that a woman with long hair was behind his wife’s estrangement from him. So, he suspected Sajitha and hacked her to death. Circumstantial evidence and the statements of fifty witnesses, including his wife’s, turned crucial in the case.

He murdered her when she was alone at home. On the day of the murder, her daughters were in school and Sudhakaran, her husband, a lorry driver, was in Tamil Nadu. When Sajitha was in the kitchen, Chenthamara came with a sword and hacked her brutally leading to her death. After confirming her death, he left the blood-stained sword at home and went hiding in the Nelliyampathy hills. The police arrested him when he came out from his hiding place after feeling hungry.