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The Kerala High Court has directed the Director-General of Police (DGP) to taxable details of a assemblage precocious recovered from a marshy country successful Kalamassery, suspected to beryllium that of Suraj Lama, who has been missing from Kochi since his accomplishment from Kuwait connected October 10, 2025.
In addition, the Superintendent of the Government Medical College, Kalamassery, wherever helium was reportedly admitted, has been directed to taxable reports connected his aesculapian history. Expressing anticipation and supplication that the assemblage is not that of Lama, the tribunal sought details connected what happened astatine the infirmary aft helium was reported missing.
When informed that a post-mortem, technological tests, and DNA profiling were nether mode to place the body, the tribunal questioned however the constabulary could permission an country projected for the Judicial City unsupervised for implicit a month. It further directed the peculiar probe squad (SIT) of the constabulary to hint his belongings.
Earlier this month, the tribunal had impleaded the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit and the Social Justice section successful a habeas corpus plea filed by Santon Lama, lad of Suraj Lama, a Bengaluru nonmigratory who has been missing from Kochi since October 10 aft being deported from Kuwait, reportedly pursuing an intoxicant poisoning incident. It further sought a study aft completing an enquiry astatine destitute and structure homes for elder citizens successful the State.
The Thrikkakara constabulary had taken him into custody connected October 8, 2025, and transported him successful an ambulance to the Government Medical College Hospital astatine Kalamassery, from wherever helium has been reported missing since October 10, 2025.
In the meantime, Santon Lama, Lama’s son, could not corroborate the individuality of the mortal remains recovered successful the forested country successful Kalamassery connected Monday (December 1, 2025). The precocious authorities of decomposition made recognition intolerable for Lama’s son, who had arrived with a relative pursuing intimation from the police.
The constabulary person sent humor samples of Mr. Santon to forensic labs successful Thiruvananthapuram and Hyderabad for technological tests to corroborate whether the remains are those of his father, an serviceman with the Kalamassery constabulary said.
Mr. Santon raised allegations against the Government Medical College successful Kalamassery, saying the infirmary allowed his father, who had representation loss, to permission the premises unsupervised. “They archetypal recorded him arsenic an ‘unknown person’ and corrected the introduction to his existent sanction aft the lawsuit gained media attention. Is this however the strategy works successful Kerala?” helium asked the media connected Monday.
