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No breakthrough in Rahul case

ALAPPUZHA: The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Rahul, son of Mini and Raju of Rahul Nivas, is once again in the focus in Alappuzha.

Rahul, seven years when he went missing, had disappeared around noon on May 18, 2005.

He was last seen playing cricket with his friends in the playground near his home in the Ashramam Ward here.

The local police and Crime Branch failed to trace him and the case was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation, which also is yet to make any headway.

Now, one of the suspects in the case, Rojo will be subjected to a narco-analysis test by the CBI, more than a year after two polygraph testsand a brain mapping failed to elicit any information related to the case from him.

Rojo, who lives in Rahul’s neighbourhood, says he is now at his wit’s end, after being questioned at least 75 times by the local police, Crime Branch and the CBI.

According to Rojo’s lawyers, V. Vijayakumar and B. Shivadas, the CBI would take Rojo to Bangalore for the narco test on Wednesday.

He was taken for physical tests early this week to see whether he was fit for the narco test.

The lawyers claimed that Rojo, who had earlier refused to take the narco test, had finally agreed “voluntarily” because the CBI said he would be exempted from further questioning if the narco test did not throw any new light on his alleged involvement in the caseRahul’s case, which hogged media headlines for over two years, has seen several twists and turns over the years, with the police coming up even with the confession of one Krishna Pillai, a native of Haripad. Pillai, who was arrested by the Adoor police for sexually assaulting and killing a three-year-old gypsy girl, had confessed that he had killed Rahul and thrown the body into a marsh near the Palace Ward.

However, with the police failing to trace the body, arguments over Pillai’s involvement in the case fizzled out. He is in jail now for the murder of the gypsy girl.At Rahul Nivas, the parents are still waiting with hope that they will know what happened to their son.

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