P. K. Mohammed or Chekannur Maulavi(born in 1936) was an Indian modern Islamicist from Chekannur, Malappuram district of Kerala, India.[1] He is the founder of the Quran Sunnath Society.[2] He disappeared on 29 July 1993. His death is uncertain.[3]
P.K. Mohammed | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1936 |
| Disappeared | 29 July 1993 (aged 56–57) |
| Status | Missing for 30 years, 11 months and 10 days |
Disappearance and investigation
The CBI took over the case in 1996, and in 2000 arrested two members of the ultra orthodox Muslim sect under suspicion of murder.[4][5][6]
The case was hampered by the disappearance of several witnesses, whose property was seized when they fled abroad rather than appear to testify in 2008.[7]
Mohammed’s wife filed a petition seeking to arraign A.P. Aboobacker Musaliyar as a murder suspect through her lawyer, Advocate S.K. Premraj which was allowed.[5] The court had found that Mohammed’s body was disposed of in some mysterious manner so as never to be recovered,[8] which was dismissed by High Court later[3][9]
A Decision Bench of the Kerala High Court in 2018 acquitted the first accused.[10] With this, all accused in the case, including the first accused V. V. Hamsa, who had been sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment in 2010 have been let off.[9][11] Even Chekannur Moulavi's death could not be proved.[10]
In popular culture
His disappearance is the subject of a 2009 documentary, Ore Oru Chekannur.[12]