‘Hand of God’ in Kerala murders: Victim’s relative

Kozhikode, October 7

Seventeen years after the six suspicious deaths in her family, allegedly by being fed cyanide-laced food, Renji Thomas feels there is a “hand of God” in the case, which is why the truth is tumbling out about the “well planned murders” now after all these years.

There was no suspicion about any of the deaths earlier, Renji, sister of Roy Thomas, whose wife Jolly is the prime accused in the case and has been arrested along with two others, said on Monday.

Besides 47-year-old Jolly, MS Mathew (44), a close friend of the woman, and Prajikumar (48), a man working in a jewellery shop, who had allegedly supplied the cyanide, have so far been arrested. A Special Investigation Team has been probing the case after receiving a complaint from Roy’s US-based brother, Rojo, over the six deaths between 2002 and 2016. — PTI