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Sukumara Kurup (alias Sukumara Pillai) (born as P K Gopalakrishna Kurup) is an Indian fugitive and is one of the most-wanted criminals in the Indian state of Kerala. [5] [6] On 21 January 1984, he, along with his co-brother Bhaskara Pillai, his driver Ponnappan and his aide Shahu, murdered a man named Chacko in an attempt to fake Kurup's own ...
Apr 23, 2021 · Sukumara Kurup has been on the run for 37 years, after faking his death by murdering a man who resembled him. His alleged intention was to commit insurance fraud. Over time, the murder and the vanishing act combined has made him an enigma.
Nov 16, 2021 · Kurup, a native of Alappuzha in Kerala is the prime accused in the murder of one Chacko, who was found dead in a car on January 21, 1984, with his body charred beyond recognition. When the body was first discovered, it was suspected that it was Sukumara Kurup, a wealthy NRI man who was building a palatial house nearby.
Nov 12, 2021 · In the eerily early hours of a January morning in 1984, a man travelling over the Kollakadavu Bridge in Kunnam in Kerala’s Alappuzha district saw a charred body in a burnt car in a nearby farm. He...
Jan 10, 2021 · Finding Sukumara Kurup: Recreating a 37-year-old murder case that has become folklore in Kerala. What’s the quickest way to get a lot of money? The answer presented itself to Sukumara Kurup through a story he accidentally read in an English detective magazine one night.
Nov 9, 2021 · Given that Kurup is based on a real-life criminal who had murdered a man named Chacko, the campaign's sensitivity was questioned considering Chacko's wife and son are still alive.
Jan 21, 2024 · Sukumara Kurup, an expatriate hailing from Puthenveettil, Cheriyanad, had planned Chacko's murder to illegally claim insurance worth Rs 8 lakh and carried out the crime along with his relative Bhaskara Pillai, driver Ponnappan and friend Shahu, a resident of Chavakkad, on January 22, 1984.
Jan 22, 2021 · The real story. In the morning of January 22, 1984, the charred body of Chacko was found in a black Ambassador by a paddy field near Kurup’s house. The paddy field is still known as 'Chacko paadam'.
Dec 26, 2021 · The real version. On further interrogation, Haridas managed to dig out the truth from Bhaskara Pillai. Sukumara Kurup, when he landed in his hometown two weeks ago, was accompanied by a man...
Jun 18, 2017 · 18 Jun 2017, 6:58 am. Since the 1980s, Kerala has had a morbid fascination for Sukumara Kurup. The prime accused in the cold-blooded killing of a man named Chacko, Kurup has been on the run for...
