Murdered or Not? “Murdered Woman” Goes to Court, Judge Orders DNA Test
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But now it emerges that Punitha’s mother had left her father, who was living at Perur in Tuticorin, many years ago and remarried a man in Tirupur. She died years later. Punitha too married a man in Tirupur, left him and went to Chennai. In Chennai, she married a Muslim man and gave birth to two children.In 2011, when she returned to her native village to visit her relatives, some villagers informed her about the police case relating to her ‘murder’. Following this, she approached the collector and the SP and told them that nobody had killed her.
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The matter reached the high court after the two persons slapped with the murder charge approached the court seeking action against the policemen who had foisted the case on them. When the case came up for hearing last week, Justice Nagamuthu directed police to produce the woman in court.The judge directed the Tuticorin superintendent of police Aswin M Kotnis, who was present in the court, to conduct further inquiries.Punitha went missing from Srivaikundam on March 6, 2002 and was declared killed on April 5, 2002.