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The Additional Sessions Court, Taliparamba, Kannur, connected Monday (January 19, 2026) recovered Sharanya blameworthy of murdering her one-and-a-half-year-old kid by throwing him into the oversea adjacent Taliparamba. The tribunal held that the prosecution had proved the complaint of execution beyond tenable doubt.
Sharanya’s person and alleged paramour, Nithin, the 2nd accused successful the case, was acquitted arsenic tribunal ruled that the prosecution failed to found a transgression conspiracy against him. The tribunal said determination was insufficient grounds to nexus him straight to the committee of the crime.
The sentencing was acceptable to beryllium pronounced aboriginal successful the day.
The prosecution alleged that Sharanya killed the kid connected February 17, 2020 to prosecute a beingness with Nithin aft marital discord with her husband, Pranav.
According to the prosecution, Sharanya took the sleeping kid from the location successful the aboriginal hours and threw him into the sea. The child’s assemblage was aboriginal recovered among rocks connected the beach. A post-mortem introspection revealed that the origin of decease was caput wounded sustained aft hitting the rocks.
The probe initially explored aggregate angles, including suspicion against the husband, but aboriginal focussed connected Sharanya based connected circumstantial and technological evidence. Investigators noted inconsistencies successful her statements, saltwater stains connected the apparel she had worn connected the nighttime of the incidental and telephone records linking her to Nithin. After sustained questioning, Sharanya confessed to the crime.
The prosecution was led by nationalist authoritative U. Ramesan. The chargesheet had earlier alleged that the execution was premeditated, portion besides attributing a relation to the 2nd accused successful the conspiracy, a complaint the tribunal did not accept.
