Sukumara Kurup
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Sukumara Kurup is a notorious wanted criminal in the India
n state of Kerala
. He is accused in the murder of Chacko, a film representative, in the year 1984. Chacko was strangled to death and his body burnt inside a car. Sukumara Kurup allegedly committed the crime to fake his own death and claim an insurance amount of by killing Chacko who bore a resemblance with him. Sukumara Kurup is supposed to have fled abroad after the incident, while two of his co-accused were sentenced to life-term imprisonment. The Chacko murder case is one of the long standing cases in the judicial history of Kerala.
The case again caught media attention during the mid-2000s when there were reports on Sukumara kurup look-alikes in various parts of India and Kerala.
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n state of Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
. He is accused in the murder of Chacko, a film representative, in the year 1984. Chacko was strangled to death and his body burnt inside a car. Sukumara Kurup allegedly committed the crime to fake his own death and claim an insurance amount of by killing Chacko who bore a resemblance with him. Sukumara Kurup is supposed to have fled abroad after the incident, while two of his co-accused were sentenced to life-term imprisonment. The Chacko murder case is one of the long standing cases in the judicial history of Kerala.
The case again caught media attention during the mid-2000s when there were reports on Sukumara kurup look-alikes in various parts of India and Kerala.