A hearing scheduled at the Pathanamthitta Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Court on July 24 will mark a milestone in the life of K.C. Prabhakaran Pillai, a retired executive officer of the Pathanamthitta District Cooperative Bank.
Around 30 years ago when the case first came up for a hearing at the same court, he had stood as the lone accused in the case. Life has come a full circle and he now stands as a witness in the same case.
The life of Mr. Pillai, a clerk-cum-cashier in the bank, took a turn for the worse on June, 30, 1994, when 36.5 sovereigns of gold pledged by the public in the bank went missing. He had gone on leave three days before the incident, after handing over the cash book and gold stock register to a colleague.
