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Boy acquitted in murder case ends life

Thrissur: A 17-year-old boy acquitted by the Juvenile Justice Board in the infamous Chamakkala murder case died at Nellikunnu on Friday night after he allegedly consumed poison. The police said he committed suicide exactly a year after the day he was acquitted.

The police said he was found collapsed in a room he lived in near a PVC pipe manufacturing company where he was a trainee in the past few months. He was rushed to a hospital, but his life could not be saved.

The teenager, who was placed in the Juvenile Home after acquittal, had been sent for training in the company. On March 28, 2008, the Juvenile Justice Board had acquitted the teenager in a case related to murder of a seven-year-old girl after sexual assault at Chamakkala in the coastal area of the district on June 10, 2006.

On June 11, 2006, the girl’s body was found in a sack with injuries on the neck and head in a building under construction at Chamakkala. The sack was covered with another. On June 10, the girl had left for a house in the neighbourhood to watch TV. The police arrested the teenager on June 15, 2006, from Varappuzha Bridge. The police said the boy confessed to have taken the girl to the deserted building and strangulated her after trying to sexually assault her. Later, he smashed her head with a wooden beam, the police said.

According to the police, the accused had led a vagabond’s life and had been sexually abused by several people in the area. The Juvenile Justice Board had maintained that there was no scientific evidence to prove his involvement in the girl’s death.

“Semen and blood found on the girl’s body were not subjected to forensic tests. Why the investigation was done so is a mystery. No one can be accused on the basis of assumption,” the Board had said then.

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