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Monday, 10 February 2025 3.23 AM IST

Grandson, wife get life in prison for Mannarkkad Nabisa murder case

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PALAKKAD: The court on Saturday sentenced life imprisonment for the accused in the Mannarkkad Nabisa murder case. Nabisa's grandson Basheer (33), a Karimpuzha native and his wife Faseela (27), a native of Kandamangalam, were found guilty of the crime. According to the case, Karimpuzha native Mammi’s wife Nabisa(71) died after consuming the poisoned laced porridge which she consumed to break fast during Ramzan season.

Basheer is the first accused and Faseela the second accused in the case. The court stated that murder, destruction of evidence and conspiracy have been proved against the accused. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on the accused. Basheer will have to spend an additional seven years in prison for destroying evidence. About 35 witnesses were examined in the case.

P Jayan, the prosecutor in the case, said that he was satisfied with the verdict. The case proceeded only on circumstantial evidence without direct evidence. There were no eyewitnesses in the case. Scientific evidence helped the prosecution. The defense raised the argument of suicide in the case but failed to convince the court.

The body was found on the roadside near Nayadippara on the Arayabhavu-Ottapalam road on June 24, 2016. Police found that four days before the murder, Nabisa was brought by Basheer to his house in Nambiar Kunnu, Mannarkkad. On the night of 22nd, Nabisa was given medicine for termites in spinach curry. Nabisa ate this. After realizing that Nabisa had no health problems, Basheer forcibly poured poison into Nabisa's mouth at night. After confirming that Nabisa was dead, the body was kept at home for a day. Then on the night of the 24th, Basheer and Faseela left Nabisa's body on the road in Arayabhav along with the suicide note.

The police found that Fazila had written the suicide note several times in the notebook and it was Basheer who copied it on the paper. The discovery of the letter from the bag of Nabisa, who did not know how to read and write, led to a breakthrough in the investigation.

Faseela has served a jail term in the case of trying to kill her husband's father by poisoning him. Faseela is accused in the case of stealing money and jewellery by wearing a burqa and spraying chilli powder from Thrippunithura in 2018 and in the case of stealing gold from a flat near the Kallekkad block office.

TAGS: GRANDSON, NABISAS, MURDERS, KERALA, PRISON, MANNARKKAD
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